I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.
Carolyn HeilbrunWhether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into gold when the austere bluestocking became the fallen woman.
Carolyn HeilbrunAndrogyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experienceโฆit suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.
Carolyn HeilbrunIs there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?
Carolyn Heilbrun