A literary academic can no ...

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.
 Carolyn Heilbrun

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this work accepted, if I get this job" -- there always seems to loom the possibility of something being over, settled, sweeping clear the way for contentment. This is the delusion of a passive life. When the hope for closure is abandoned, when there is an end to fantasy, adventure for women will begin.
 Carolyn Heilbrun
Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
 Carolyn Heilbrun
We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.
 Carolyn Heilbrun
maturity ... is letting things happen.
 Carolyn Heilbrun
As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own…women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.
 Carolyn Heilbrun