Marilyn French
Marilyn French
Marilyn Frenchwas an American author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 November 1929
CountryUnited States of America
weakness underestimate never-underestimate
Never underestimate the power of helplessness!
power should-have play
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.
eye milk tvs
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.
loneliness mean people
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.
art waiting survival
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.
depression doors matter
in a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box.
simple men bombs
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.
fun giving kind
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.
power passive dependency
There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.
differences kind disappear
The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain.
sex motivation real
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.
lying mean people
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.
giving tests facts
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.
i-love-you romantic short-love
Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.