85 Quotes by Marilyn French

Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.

All men are rapists and that's all they are

Women are afraid in a world in which almost half the population bears the guise of the predator, in which no factor - age, dress, or color - distinguishes a man who will harm a woman from one who will not.

My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don’t even need to shrug. I simply don’t care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames and yearnings were, simply don’t matter.

Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures.

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.

For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious. But men's superstition or insanity has real and dire consequences for the women who are its object. And states, too, home in on women's bodies, perhaps to create the illusion that men are in control of uncontrollable forces. Indeed, almost all governments try to control women's bodies and regulate their appearance in some way.

The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.

All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.