Marilyn French Quotes
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My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.
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Women are afraid in a world in which almost half the population bears the guise of the predator, in which no factor - age, dress, or color - distinguishes a man who will harm a woman from one who will not.
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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.
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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?
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There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.
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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.
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Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior
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The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.
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'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.
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The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.
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Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?
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There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.
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It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.
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All men are rapists and that's all they are
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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 with a bullet in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don’t even need to shrug. I simply don’t care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames and yearnings were, simply don’t matter.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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there's no justice, there's only love.
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Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.
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Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures.
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The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain.
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I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.
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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.
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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.
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Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
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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 than women are. The simple truth - that men are only equal - can undermine a culture more devastatingly than any bomb. Subversion is telling the truth.
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Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire.
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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?
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I'd discovered you never know yourself until you're tested and that you don't even know you're being tested until afterwards, and that in fact there isn't anyone giving the test except yourself.
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