Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Carolyn Heilbrun

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• Husband
• Misery
• Lover
• Compulsion

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• The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Time
  • God
  • Person

• When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • World
  • Words

• TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.

  

  Gail Porter
  • World
  • Done
  • Job

• You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Good
  • Why
  • Creativity

• All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.

  

  Taio Cruz
  • Good
  • Music
  • I Can

• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Friend
  • Thought
  • Boy

• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Captain

• The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Mind
  • Human
  • Curiosity

• Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.

  

  Jack Dunphy
  • People
  • Up
  • Bad

• Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • May
  • True
  • Fear

• What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Better

• I think glamour is synonymous with me.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Think
  • Me
  • Glamour

• Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • World
  • War
  • World War II

• I'm not a long-term member of the 'Breaking Bad' family.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Long
  • Family
  • Bad

• I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.

  

  Washed Out
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• People don't always do what they say they're going to do.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Always
  • They Say

• I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Better

• I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Respect
  • Government
  • Fact

• Paul Giamatti is truly one of my biggest inspirations, and even more so now that I've gotten to work with him. Every single thing he does, he completely transforms into it. When I watch a film with Paul in it, I'm not like, 'Oh, there's Paul.' I'm completely into whatever character he's in, and I'm not thinking about him as an actor.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Character

• All I know is a door into the dark

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Dark
  • Doors

• My husband, after two weeks of dating, asked me, if our relationship were to work out, would I be OK with our first boy being named Ace.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Work
  • Relationship
  • Boy

• My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at it. They drove their children back and forth to soccer, skating lessons, piano lessons, private schools, but I sensed, even in my own mother, a kind of distant dissatisfaction.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • Time
  • Women
  • Children

• The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Women
  • Husband
  • Misery