#al

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#become #both #choice #defeat #feminism

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#acquire #always #criticized #had #ironically

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#ahead #always #fact #hold #job

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#beings #books #burn #end #human

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#asses #being #beings #human #human being

He only profits from praise who values criticism. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#only #praise #profits #values #who

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#half #i #i do #know #she

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#earlier #expressed #individual #many #miracles

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#battle #before #go #into #me

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#fails #great #hearts #people #revolution