Cynthia Heimel Quotes


[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape. A shape that calls straight through civilization to our reptilian brains.


Citations

Heimel, Cynthia. If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too? Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995.

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Cynthia Heimel
Cynthia Heimel
  • Born: July 13, 1947
  • Died: February 25, 2018
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer

Cynthia Heimel was an American feminist humorist writer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was a columnist and foremost the author of satirical books known for their unusual titles, aimed at a female readership, as well as a playwright and television writer.