“and I'd die of his emptiness even more than I'm dying of my own.” — Marilyn French Death Copy Share Image
Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me. — Marilyn French Beautiful romantic Copy Share Image
There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had. — Marilyn French Justice 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 Discussion 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
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
in a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box. — Marilyn French Boxes 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
“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
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
Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are… — Marilyn French Determined 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 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
“What I don't understand is where women suddenly get power. Because they do. The kids, who almost always turn out to be… — Marilyn French Mommy 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
“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
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in… — Marilyn French Car 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
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
Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures. — Marilyn French Adventure 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
“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 Appearance 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
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 Afraid 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
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
