Marilyn French Quotes

You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else. - Marilyn French

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? - Marilyn French

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

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. - Marilyn French

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. - Marilyn French

Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul? - Marilyn French

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape? - Marilyn French

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense. - Marilyn French

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. - Marilyn French

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. - Marilyn French

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