My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
– Marilyn French
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
– Marilyn French
Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
– 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
Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?
– 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.