Marilyn French
Marilyn French
Marilyn Frenchwas an American author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 November 1929
CountryUnited States of America
believe thinking doubt
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.
love thinking self
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.
thinking self fire
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.
against american-author bolts cars children design fix nourish nuclear odds raise valuable
To nourish children and raise then against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
ability both fortune good men
Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
american-author books books-and-reading drinks everybody geniuses great wine
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
against american-author bolts children design fix nourish nuclear odds raise valuable
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.
burden children count developing either everywhere global home men pretend raising reward work
Everywhere in the world, men place all or most of the burden of raising children and maintaining the home on women, but pretend that this burden is not work; they do not reward it as work or count it as work in global accounting, in either developing
believe authority equal
I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.
race energy habit
Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.
rain england british
rain is one thing the British do better than anybody else.
justice only-love
there's no justice, there's only love.
black liberty progress
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?
passion expression energy
It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies?