Marilyn French Quotations

I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.

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 is one thing the British do better than anybody else.

there's no justice, there's only love.

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?

It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies?

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.

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.

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior

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.