85 Quotes by Marilyn French

'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

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.

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.

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

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

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.

To nourish children and raise then against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Everywhere in the world, men place all or most of the burden of raising children and maintaining the home on women, but pretend that this burden is not work; they do not reward it as work or count it as work in global accounting, in either developing