Quote

there's no justice, there's only love.

Marilyn French

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marilyn French
Age: 79 †
Born: 1929
Born: November 21
Died: 2009
Died: May 2
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Social Critic
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Justice
Love

More quotes by Marilyn French

Image
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.
Marilyn French
Image
Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?
Marilyn French
Image
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
Marilyn French
Image
Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?
Marilyn French
Image
There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.
Marilyn French
Image
She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.
Marilyn French
Image
The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain.
Marilyn French
Image
Never underestimate the power of helplessness!
Marilyn French
Image
rain is one thing the British do better than anybody else.
Marilyn French
Image
loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough intelligence and sensitivity and patience to do that.
Marilyn French
Image
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.
Marilyn French
Image
It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies?
Marilyn French
Image
In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if the howling winds came from her belly, she cries like a storm that will never end.
Marilyn French
Image
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.
Marilyn French
Image
All men are rapists and that's all they are
Marilyn French
Image
'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.
Marilyn French
Image
My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.
Marilyn French
Image
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
Image
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
Image
you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.
Marilyn French