Quotes by : Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the....

To continue what one had been doing -- which was Dante's idea of hell -- is, I came to see, and the vision....

With solitude, however, fervently it is desired and embraced, comes loneliness. T. H White, the author,....

Marriage, in short, is a bargain, like buying a house or entering a profession. One chooses it knowing....

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

Many of us feel alone and assaulted by the meaninglessness of what we are doing. But, at such times,....