Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
1926 - 2003
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Biography
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was an American academic, writer, and feminist literary critic. She was born on January 13, 1926, in East Orange, New Jersey. Heilbrun taught English literature at Columbia University for over three decades and was a prolific author, known for her scholarship on feminist writers and detective fiction. A trailblazer in women's studies, she wrote influential works such as 'Writing a Woman's Life' and 'Reinventing Womanhood'. Heilbrun's writing challenged traditional gender roles and inspired many in academia and beyond.
Famous Quotes (5)
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We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we serve as the authors of our own creative evolution.
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What is crucial is that the hero's conflict with the antagonistic environment, his adventure, becomes the symbol of the unhappy marriage and all its implications in an imperfect society.
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When one is obliged to make a statement about anything, one is hard put to know how far one may go without dismantling the future.
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To read murder mysteries is to return to a time before forensics and at least 40% of human consciousness was public.
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One learns little from victory but much from defeat.