All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes.
"Marilyn French" (née Edwards) (November 21, 1929May 2, 2009) was an American author.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More Marilyn French on Wikipedia.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.
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.
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.
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
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.
''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.
Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?
Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?
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