There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency. — Marilyn French Dependency Copy Share Image
“But she continued to wonder what the fish tasted like, so brilliant and vivid pink. Would it taste pink?” — Marilyn French Pink Copy Share Image
“Male territorial insanity yields only to another male. What a difference the possession of a penis makes!” — Marilyn French Possession 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
“That's sheer luck too: luck of the draw of birth: century, continent, nation, section, sex, color, socioeconomic sector.” — Marilyn French Luck Copy Share Image
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water. — Marilyn French Books Copy Share Image
The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters. — Marilyn French Language Copy Share Image
I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else. — Marilyn French Authority Copy Share Image
Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations… — Marilyn French Childhood 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
There's power to: and everyone should have that, but everyone doesn't. Power to play Bach, or tennis, or boccie if you like.… — Marilyn French 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
I'd discovered you never know yourself until you're tested and that you don't even know you're being tested until afterwards, and that… — Marilyn French Facts Copy Share Image
loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who… — Marilyn French Business Copy Share Image
Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root,… — Marilyn French Effort 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 Art 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
“...the words of Pyotr Stephanovich come into my mind: You must love God because He is the only one you can love… — Marilyn French Believe in god Copy Share Image
“When a man loses superiority, he loses potency. That's what all this talk about castrating women is about. Castrating women are those… — Marilyn French Bombs Copy Share Image
If you ask me what I believe in today, I believe in feminism. I believe that all human beings are equal. I… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“It would be hard to get statistics on violent death -- what do you count as murder? When people starve to death… — Marilyn French Death 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 Assumption Copy Share Image
“She felt her wrists, her arms, rubbed her hand over her breasts, her belly, her thighs. She was warm and smooth and… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“In Russia they put you in insane asylums if you disagree with the state: it's not so different here. Keep the natives… — Marilyn French Asylums Copy Share Image
When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies? — Marilyn French Empowering Copy Share Image
I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide… — Marilyn French Body Copy Share Image
The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain. — Marilyn French Differences Copy Share Image
'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end,… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it… — Marilyn French Assertive 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 Life Copy Share Image
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.… — Marilyn French Doing your best 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 Life Copy Share Image
Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you… — Marilyn French Desire Copy Share Image
