85 Quotes by Marilyn French

There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.

S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or at the factory, can happen between people of any gender. There is obviously something titillating about these relationships, but it isn't the sexual components that makes them ugly, they're uglier elsewhere. Nothing sexual is depraved. Only cruelty is depraved, and that's another matter.

Después, mucho después, recordaría aquellos años y comprendería asombrada que a los quince ya se había decidido por la mayoría de los postulados que sostendría durante el resto de su vida: que las personas no eran esencialmente malas, que la perfección era la muerte, que la vida era mejor que el orden y que un poco de caos era bueno para el alma. Más importante aún: esta vida lo era todo. Por desgracia, olvidó esas cosas y tuvo que recordarlas a base de malas experiencias.

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.

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

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

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?

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior

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.