There's power to: and everyone should have that, but everyone doesn't. Power to play Bach, or tennis, or boccie if you like. And there's power over; and no one should have that, but people do. Marilyn French More Quotes by Marilyn French More Quotes From Marilyn French To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. Marilyn French family mom mother 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 self fear house The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege. Marilyn French dominance feminism men 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. Marilyn French doubt believe thinking 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. Marilyn French men mean fall My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world. Marilyn French motivational inspirational civilization All the women I know feel a little like outlaws. Marilyn French outlaw feels littles The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters. Marilyn French struggle views life Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior Marilyn French equality feels men All men are rapists and that's all they are Marilyn French radical-feminism hate men For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious. But men's superstition or insanity has real and dire consequences for the women who are its object. And states, too, home in on women's bodies, perhaps to create the illusion that men are in control of uncontrollable forces. Indeed, almost all governments try to control women's bodies and regulate their appearance in some way. Marilyn French real home men 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. Marilyn French loneliness mean people 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. Marilyn French color age men It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face. Marilyn French strange faces men Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men. Marilyn French dominance powerful men 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. Marilyn French self love thinking I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in. Marilyn French tides body doors Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul? Marilyn French chaos soul littles 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. Marilyn French simple men culture For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one's genital organs; or a set of injunctions against lying, stealing, or killing except when such acts are sanctioned by church or state. Marilyn French mean lying people
