85 Quotes by Marilyn French

There’s power to: and everyone should have that, but everyone doesn’t. Power to play Bach, or tennis, or boccie if you like. And there’s power over; and no one should have that, but people do.

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

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.

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

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

For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one’s genital organs; or a set of injunctions against lying, stealing, or killing except when such acts are sanctioned by church or state.

It’s strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman’s appearance to her face.

It isn’t success after all, is it, if it isn’t an expression of your deepest energies?

I’ve known for a long time that hypocrisy is the secret of sanity. You mustn’t let them know you know.