Marilyn French
Marilyn French
Marilyn Frenchwas an American author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 November 1929
CountryUnited States of America
simple over-you trying
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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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.
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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?
sex eye home
All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations of women... All women learn in childhood that women as a sex are men's prey.
art mind tears
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.