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Carolyn Heilbrun was a prominent American feminist literary critic and author, born on January 13, 1926, and passed away on October 9, 2003. Her works deeply explored the role of women in literature and society, having a profound impact on feminist literary criticism.

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“Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.”

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Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“the term 'androgyny' ... defines a condition under which the characteristics of the sexes, and the human impulses expressed by men and women, are not rigidly assigned. Androgyny seeks to liberate the individual from the confines of the appropriate.”

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Book:Toward a recognition of androgyny

Source: Toward a recognition of androgyny

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

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Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.”

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Book:Toward a recognition of androgyny

Source: Toward a recognition of androgyny

“Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.”

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Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“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.”

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Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

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Born: January 13, 1926
Died: October 9, 2003
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