Feminism Quotes by Marilyn French

“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

Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures.

— Marilyn French

“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

All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes.

— Marilyn French

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

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

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior

— Marilyn French

All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.

— Marilyn French

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

“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

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

— Marilyn French

There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.

— Marilyn French

“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

“and I'd die of his emptiness even more than I'm dying of my own.”

— Marilyn French

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