“and I'd die of his emptiness even more than I'm dying of my own.” — Marilyn French Death Copy Share Image
There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had. — Marilyn French Justice Copy Share Image
Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me. — Marilyn French Beautiful romantic Copy Share Image
Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul? — Marilyn French Chaos Copy Share Image
There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency. — Marilyn French Dependency Copy Share Image
Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures. — Marilyn French Adventure 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 Civilization Copy Share Image
“I've known for a long time that hypocrisy is the secret of sanity. You mustn't let them know you know.” — Marilyn French Hypocrisy Copy Share Image
Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape? — Marilyn French Escape Copy Share Image
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
in a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box. — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege. — Marilyn French Blind Copy Share Image
It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face. — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting… — Marilyn French Art Copy Share Image
Women are afraid in a world in which almost half the population bears the guise of the predator, in which no factor… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day… — Marilyn French Energy Copy Share Image
Everywhere in the world, men place all or most of the burden of raising children and maintaining the home on women, but… — Marilyn French Children Copy Share Image
“But communes are a good idea. People criticize communes because they don't last, but why in hell, will you tell me, should… — Marilyn French Communes 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 Art Copy Share Image
When a baby first looks at you...when it laughs that deep, unselfconscious gurgle; or when it cries and you pick it up… — Marilyn French Baby Copy Share Image
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion… — Marilyn French Ancient Copy Share Image
My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“It does seem true that a young woman may sometimes behave in a way that can be called titillating, and that men… — Marilyn French Hypocrisy Copy Share Image
“Men: they are what they are and women have to accept that and try to shift around them. Especially men with power.… — Marilyn French Anger Copy Share Image
“They leave the genitals off Barbie and Ken, but they manufacture every kind of war toy. Because sex is more threatening to… — Marilyn French Aggression Copy Share Image
“In Harlem the government pushes heroin to keep the blacks down and doctors by the thousands give barbiturates and tranquilizers to all… — Marilyn French Harlem Copy Share Image
Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but it magnified the bad things, so… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“One advantage to being a despised species is that you have freedom, freedom to be any crazy thing you want. If you… — Marilyn French Feminism Copy Share Image
“I see us as all sitting around naked, shivering, in a huge circle, looking up as the sky turns black and the… — Marilyn French Moon 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 Bad idea Copy Share Image
“You think I hate men. I guess I do, although some of my best friends...I don't like this position. I mistrust generalized… — Marilyn French Best friend Copy Share Image
“The breakdown of the neighborhoods also meant the end of what was essentially an extended family…With the breakdown of the extended family,… — 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… — Marilyn French Fear Copy Share Image
“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… — Marilyn French Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Our culture believes strong individuals can transcend their circumstances. I myself don't much enjoy books by Hardy or Dreiser or Wharton, where… — Marilyn French Books Copy Share Image
![“It does seem true that a young woman may sometimes behave in a way that can be called titillating, and that men take such behavior as being directed entirely at them. [...] I've often seen blushing young men with shining eyes behave in the same way, but no one says of them that they want to be…” quote by Marilyn French](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/398/marilyn-french-8026_hypocrisy_it-does-seem-true-that-a-young-woman-may_1981961.jpg)
![“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)
