Marilyn French Quotes - Page 2

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• It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies?

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  Success, Women, Passion

  Marilyn French (2013). “The Bleeding Heart: A Novel”, p.112, Open Road Media

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• Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

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  Art, Waiting, Survival

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.

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  Believe, Authority, Equal

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• There's power to: and everyone should have that, but everyone doesn't. Power to play Bach, or tennis, or boccie if you like. And there's power over; and no one should have that, but people do.

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  Power, Should Have, Play

  Marilyn French (2013). “The Bleeding Heart: A Novel”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• The real motivation of the campaign to criminalize abortion is to establish the principles that women's bodies belong to the state and that women bear the responsibility for sex.

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  Sex, Motivation, Real

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• When a man loses superiority, he loses potency. That's what all this talk about castrating women is about. Castrating women are those who refuse to pretend men are better than they are and better than women are. The simple truth - that men are only equal - can undermine a culture more devastatingly than any bomb. Subversion is telling the truth.

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  Simple, Men, Culture

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.267, Hachette UK

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• there's no justice, there's only love.

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  Justice, Only Love

  Marilyn French (2013). “The Bleeding Heart: A Novel”, p.294, Open Road Media

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• For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one's genital organs; or a set of injunctions against lying, stealing, or killing except when such acts are sanctioned by church or state.

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  Lying, Mean, People

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• 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 in fact there isn't anyone giving the test except yourself.

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  Giving, Tests, Facts

  Marilyn French (2016). “The Women of Marilyn French: Her Mother's Daughter, Our Father, and The Bleeding Heart”, p.2161, Open Road Media

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• Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

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  I Love You, Romantic, Short Love

  Marilyn French (2013). “A Season in Hell: A Memoir”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but it magnified the bad things, so they came to feel as painful as a grain in one's eye. An open window, a forgotten quart of milk, a TV set left blaring, socks on the bathroom floor could become occasions for incredible rage.

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  Eye, Milk, Tvs

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.253, Hachette UK

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

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  Justice

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Adventure, Disaster

  Marilyn French (2016). “The Women of Marilyn French: Her Mother's Daughter, Our Father, and The Bleeding Heart”, p.753, Open Road Media

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• S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or at the factory, can happen between people of any gender. There is obviously something titillating about these relationships, but it isn't the sexual components that makes them ugly, they're uglier elsewhere. Nothing sexual is depraved. Only cruelty is depraved, and that's another matter.

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  Expression, People, Kitchen

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.391, Simon and Schuster

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• When a baby first looks at you...when it laughs that deep, unselfconscious gurgle; or when it cries and you pick it up and it clings sobbing to you...then you are-happy is not the precise word-filled.

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  Baby, Motherhood, Laughing

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• In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if the howling winds came from her belly, she cries like a storm that will never end.

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  Hands, Wind, Storm

  Marilyn French (2013). “Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel”, p.104, Open Road Media

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• Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire.

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  Thinking, Fire, Self

  Marilyn French (2016). “The Women of Marilyn French: Her Mother's Daughter, Our Father, and The Bleeding Heart”, p.650, Open Road Media

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• There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.

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  Power, Passive, Greater

  Marilyn French (2013). “The Bleeding Heart: A Novel”, p.370, Open Road Media

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• One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

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  Art, Mind, Tears

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• Never underestimate the power of helplessness!

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  Weakness, Underestimate, Never Underestimate

  Marilyn French (2013). “The Bleeding Heart: A Novel”, p.109, Open Road Media

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• you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.

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  Fun, Giving, Kind

  Marilyn French (2013). “The Bleeding Heart: A Novel”, p.379, Open Road Media

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• The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain.

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  Differences, Kind, Disappear

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• in a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box.

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  Depression, Doors, Matter

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• rain is one thing the British do better than anybody else.

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  Rain, England, British

  Marilyn French (2013). “The Bleeding Heart: A Novel”, p.159, Open Road Media

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• She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.

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  Swim, Teach

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