Marilyn French Quotes

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• To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

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  Family, Mom, Mother

  Marilyn French (2013). “Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel”, p.1070, Open Road Media

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• Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

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  Fear, Self, House

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• The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.

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  Men, Feminism, Dominance

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• My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don’t even need to shrug. I simply don’t care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames and yearnings were, simply don’t matter.

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  Fall, Mean, Men

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Civilization

  "Marilyn French, Novelist and Champion of Feminism, Dies at 79" by A. G. Sulzberger, Herbert Mitgang, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2009.

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• If you ask me what I believe in today, I believe in feminism. I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else. Feminism has to do with everything in the world, a vision of how the world can be. I have great doubts about Utopias, but I just keep on thinking there is a better way to live than the way we live now.

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  Believe, Thinking, Doubt

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• All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.

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  Littles, Outlaw, Feels

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• All men are rapists and that's all they are

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  Hate, Men, Radical Feminism

  TheWomen's Room ch. 5 (1977)

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• The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.

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  Life, Struggle, Views

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• For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious. But men's superstition or insanity has real and dire consequences for the women who are its object. And states, too, home in on women's bodies, perhaps to create the illusion that men are in control of uncontrollable forces. Indeed, almost all governments try to control women's bodies and regulate their appearance in some way.

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  Real, Home, Men

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• Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior

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  Equality, Men, Feels

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• loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough intelligence and sensitivity and patience to do that.

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  Loneliness, Mean, People

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• Women are afraid in a world in which almost half the population bears the guise of the predator, in which no factor - age, dress, or color - distinguishes a man who will harm a woman from one who will not.

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  Men, Color, Age

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• Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

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  Love, Thinking, Self

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.347, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

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  Simple, Over You, Trying

  marilyn french (1977). “the womens room”

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• It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.

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  Men, Faces, Strange

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• Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.

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  Powerful, Men, Dominance

  Marilyn French (2008). “From Eve to Dawn, A History of Women in the World: Revolutions and Struggles for Justice in the 20th Century”, p.3, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.

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  Doors, Tides, Body

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.667, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry for the rest of her life: that people were essentially not evil, that perfection was death, that life was better than order and a little chaos good for the soul. Most important, this life was all. Unfortunately, she forgot these things, and had to remember them the hard way.

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  Order, Years, People

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• Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.

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  Humanness Is, Inferiority, Lists

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• Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?

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  Soul, Littles, Chaos

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.227, Hachette UK

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• Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

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  Men, Roots, Effort

  "The Anti-Male New York Times", www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2003.

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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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• 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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