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Marilyn French Quotes

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you’re trying to escape? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if the howling winds came from her belly, she cries like a storm that will never end Picture Quote #1

It’s strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman’s appearance to her face Picture Quote #1

You can’t equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn’t fun, it doesn’t give you a kick, it just allows you to survive Picture Quote #1

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Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry for the rest of her life: that people were essentially not evil, that perfection was death, that life was better than order and a little chaos good for the soul. Most important, this life was all. Unfortunately, she forgot these things, and had to remember them the hard way Picture Quote #1

I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in Picture Quote #1

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world Picture Quote #1

It isn’t success after all, is it, if it isn’t an expression of your deepest energies? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

For men to focus on controlling women’s reproduction to solve a society’s problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious. But men’s superstition or insanity has real and dire consequences for the women who are its object. And states, too, home in on women’s bodies, perhaps to create the illusion that men are in control of uncontrollable forces. Indeed, almost all governments try to control women’s bodies and regulate their appearance in some way Picture Quote #1

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The real motivation of the campaign to criminalize abortion is to establish the principles that women’s bodies belong to the state and that women bear the responsibility for sex Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one’s genital organs; or a set of injunctions against lying, stealing, or killing except when such acts are sanctioned by church or state Picture Quote #1

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Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you’re trying to escape? (Marilyn French Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if the howling winds came from her belly, she cries like a storm that will never end (Marilyn French Quotes) It’s strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman’s appearance to her face (Marilyn French Quotes) You can’t equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn’t fun, it doesn’t give you a kick, it just allows you to survive (Marilyn French Quotes) Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry for the rest of her life: that people were essentially not evil, that perfection was death, that life was better than order and a little chaos good for the soul. Most important, this life was all. Unfortunately, she forgot these things, and had to remember them the hard way (Marilyn French Quotes) I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in (Marilyn French Quotes) My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world (Marilyn French Quotes) It isn’t success after all, is it, if it isn’t an expression of your deepest energies? (Marilyn French Quotes) 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 (Marilyn French Quotes) For men to focus on controlling women’s reproduction to solve a society’s problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious. But men’s superstition or insanity has real and dire consequences for the women who are its object. And states, too, home in on women’s bodies, perhaps to create the illusion that men are in control of uncontrollable forces. Indeed, almost all governments try to control women’s bodies and regulate their appearance in some way (Marilyn French Quotes) The real motivation of the campaign to criminalize abortion is to establish the principles that women’s bodies belong to the state and that women bear the responsibility for sex (Marilyn French Quotes) 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 Quotes) For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one’s genital organs; or a set of injunctions against lying, stealing, or killing except when such acts are sanctioned by church or state (Marilyn French Quotes)

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