Marilyn French
Marilyn French
Marilyn Frenchwas an American author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 November 1929
CountryUnited States of America
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.
against american-author bolts children design fix nourish nuclear odds raise valuable
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
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?
equality men feels
Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior
baby motherhood laughing
When a baby first looks at you...when it laughs that deep, unselfconscious gurgle; or when it cries and you pick it up and it clings sobbing to you...then you are-happy is not the precise word-filled.
believe thinking doubt
If you ask me what I believe in today, I believe in feminism. I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else. Feminism has to do with everything in the world, a vision of how the world can be. I have great doubts about Utopias, but I just keep on thinking there is a better way to live than the way we live now.
justice
There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.
doors tides body
I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.