Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.
More Quotes from Marilyn French:
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.Marilyn French
Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?
Marilyn French
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
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
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
Marilyn French
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
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Law & Regulation Quotes, Life Quotes, Man Quotes, Woman QuotesBased on Keywords: codes, rapists
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
Max Born
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
Judith Rodriguez