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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
Marilyn French
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Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?
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Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.
Marilyn French
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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.
Marilyn French
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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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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.
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Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.
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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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Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.
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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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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.
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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
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All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes.
Marilyn French
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