Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul? — Marilyn French Chaos 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
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in… — Marilyn French 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
“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
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
Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior — Marilyn French 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
“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
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
“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
“...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
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
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
'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
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water. — Marilyn French Books 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
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
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
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
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
“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
In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
