The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters. — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world. — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“Some people use bullfights, some the Mass, some art in order to ritualize or transform death into life or at least meaning.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“What is a man, anyway? Everything I see around me in popular culture tells me a man is he who screws and… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“All my life I've read that the life of the mind is preeminent, and that it can transcend all bodily degradation. But… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“But we all die, and all death is violent, the overthrowing of the state of life, so why did that year [1968]seem… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle.… — Marilyn French Copy Share
Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures. — Marilyn French Copy Share
“The breakdown of the neighborhoods also meant the end of what was essentially an extended family…With the breakdown of the extended family, too much… — Marilyn French Copy Share
All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes. — Marilyn French Copy Share
I can only tell you one thing I've learned. Enjoy the walk along the path you've chosen. Don't count down the days. Make the… — Marilyn French Copy Share
Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men. — Marilyn French Copy Share
Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior — Marilyn French Copy Share
Women are afraid in a world in which almost half the population bears the guise of the predator, in which no factor - age,… — Marilyn French Copy Share
“She could envision Shakespeare's sister. But she imagined a violent, an apocalyptic end for Shakespeare's sister, whereas I know that isn't what happened. You… — Marilyn French Copy Share
My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world. — Marilyn French Copy Share
“All my life I've read that the life of the mind is preeminent, and that it can transcend all bodily degradation. But that's just… — Marilyn French Copy Share
Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all… — Marilyn French Copy Share
![“But we all die, and all death is violent, the overthrowing of the state of life, so why did that year [1968]seem so terrible? Are King or Kennedy or some peasant folk in a village more important than the starved-out of Biafra, the names on the Detroit homicide list? Maybe I'm playing an…” quote by Marilyn French](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/331/marilyn-french-8026_bad-idea_but-we-all-die-and-all-death-is-violent_793609.png)
