Marilyn French Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.”

“'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.”

“Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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