My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine – everybody drinks water. Marilyn French Read Quote
Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior. Marilyn French Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Marilyn French Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you’re trying to escape? Marilyn French Read Quote
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 Read Quote
