“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
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
“One advantage to being a despised species is that you have freedom, freedom to be any crazy thing you want. If you… — Marilyn French Freedom 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 Ifs 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
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
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
“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 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
Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul? — Marilyn French Chaos 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
My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from… — Marilyn French Bullets 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
“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
In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if… — Marilyn French Belly 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
When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black.… — Marilyn French Black Copy Share Image
The real motivation of the campaign to criminalize abortion is to establish the principles that women's bodies belong to the state and… — Marilyn French Abortion 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 Appearance 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 Heart beat 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
“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
“She was dizzy with her own feelings, her own voice. She was flying around on a carnival machine that would not stop,… — Marilyn French Computers 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
