One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
Carolyn HeilbrunWe cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.
Carolyn HeilbrunWhy do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.
Carolyn HeilbrunOnly a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.
Carolyn Heilbrun