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.
hate men radical-feminism
All men are rapists and that's all they are
loneliness mean people
loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough intelligence and sensitivity and patience to do that.
expression people kitchen
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 obviously something titillating about these relationships, but it isn't the sexual components that makes them ugly, they're uglier elsewhere. Nothing sexual is depraved. Only cruelty is depraved, and that's another matter.
order years evil
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.
justice
There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.
justice only-love
there's no justice, there's only love.
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.
hate feminist feminism
'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.
hands wind storm
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.
soul littles chaos
Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?
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.
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.