Carolyn G. Heilbrun Quotes
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.
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 lives possible to men and to women...
With solitude, however, fervently it is desired and embraced, comes loneliness. T. H White, the author, offered advice to those in sadness -- learn something new.
To continue what one had been doing -- which was Dante's idea of hell -- is, I came to see, and the vision frightened me, easy in one's sixties.