“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
Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures. — Marilyn French Adventure 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 Asking questions Copy Share Image
All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes. — Marilyn French Men 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
Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful… — Marilyn French Dominance Copy Share Image
Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior — Marilyn French Equal 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 Age 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 Too long 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
There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had. — Marilyn French Justice 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
“and I'd die of his emptiness even more than I'm dying of my own.” — Marilyn French Death 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 Life Copy Share Image
For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one's genital organs; or a set of injunctions against… — Marilyn French Abortion 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
“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
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 Bedroom Copy Share Image
Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me. — Marilyn French Beautiful romantic 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
Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but it magnified the bad things, so… — Marilyn French Accustomed Copy Share Image
“Male territorial insanity yields only to another male. What a difference the possession of a penis makes!” — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
