Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.
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I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
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I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.
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Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.
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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
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I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the microblogging that takes place in China, and the smartphones and all the people that want to take pictures of myself and my family.
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I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.
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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
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We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.
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In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.
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People always want to compare their hands to mine. Pretty much everywhere I go.
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Mountains are like the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who anyone is or what they do.
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Wise men say that time is like a river. I say time is like a river of SHIT... and as you float down that river in your little canoe, your paddles are getting smaller and smaller.
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Women don't get the credit they deserve.
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Food in Dublin has gotten immeasurably better than it was. When I was a kid, there weren't a lot of options. Now you're overwhelmed with options.
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To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
