Marilyn French Quotes

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

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

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

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

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

All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.

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

But she continued to wonder what the fish tasted like, so brilliant and vivid pink. Would it taste pink?

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

Never underestimate the power of helplessness!

Male territorial insanity yields only to another male. What a difference the possession of a penis makes!

In the beginning was the Mother, the Word began a new era, one we have come to call Patriarchy.

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

Pride. You have it where you can have it.

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

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

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

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

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

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

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

All men are rapists and that's all they are

Rain is one thing the British do better than anybody else.

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

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

That's sheer luck too: luck of the draw of birth: century, continent, nation, section, sex, color, socioeconomic sector.

In Russia they put you in insane asylums if you disagree with the state: it's not so different here. Keep the natives quiet.

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

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

I've known for a long time that hypocrisy is the secret of sanity. You mustn't let them know you know.

'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

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