Marilyn French quotes

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. (Marilyn French)
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.
Marilyn French
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.
Marilyn French
'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.
Marilyn French
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.
Marilyn French
Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.
Marilyn French
All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.
Marilyn French
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.
Marilyn French
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.
Marilyn French
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.
Marilyn French
It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face. (Marilyn French)
There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.
Marilyn French
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.
Marilyn French
Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?
Marilyn French
Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?
Marilyn French
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?
Marilyn French