Quotes by Marilyn French

“They leave the genitals off Barbie and Ken, but they manufacture every kind of war toy. Because sex is more threatening to us than aggression. There have been strict rules about sex since the begin...”

“Pride. You have it where you can have it.”

“Six men control almost all the media in the United States--book publishing, magazines, television, movie studios, newspapers, and radio. They are not friendly toward feminism, which has almost disa...”

“I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.”

“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 t...”

“My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground wit...”

“All men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.”

“There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.”

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

“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.”

“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 ca...”

“Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.”

“S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or at the factory, can happen between people of any gender. There is obviousl...”

“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.”

“Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.”

“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.”