Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

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.

- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

The journey is over. Love to all.

- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.

- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

We in middle age require adventure.

- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun