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Marilyn French (née Edwards) (November 21, 1929 – May 2, 2009) was a radical feminist American author.

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S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or at the factory, can happen between people of any gender. There is obviously something titillating about these relationships, but it isn't the sexual components that makes them ugly, they're uglier elsewhere. Nothing sexual is depraved. Only cruelty is depraved, and that's another matter.

Components, Expression, Factory, Kitchen, Obviously, People

Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?

Chaos, God, Good, Littles, Soul

When a man loses superiority, he loses potency. That's what all this talk about castrating women is about. Castrating women are those who refuse to pretend men are better than they are and better than women are. The simple truth - that men are only equal - can undermine a culture more devastatingly than any bomb. Subversion is telling the truth.

Simple, Men, Culture, Devastatingly, Telling

All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations of women. . . All women learn in childhood that women as a sex are men's prey.

Sex, Home, Eye, Sacred, Demanding, Eyes

The real motivation of the campaign to criminalize abortion is to establish the principles that women's bodies belong to the state and that women bear the responsibility for sex.

Sex, Motivation, Real, Bear

All men are rapists and that's all they are

Hate, Men, Radical Feminism, Rapists

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

Dominance, Feminism, Men, Same

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.

Disposition, Lying, Mean, People, Rules, Stealing

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.

Care, Experience, Fall, Mean, Men, Yearnings

If you ask me what I believe in today, I believe in feminism. I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else. Feminism has to do with everything in the world, a vision of how the world can be. I have great doubts about Utopias, but I just keep on thinking there is a better way to live than the way we live now.

Believe, Everything, Feminism, Thinking, Utopias, Vision

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.

Enough, Intelligence, Loneliness, Mean, Patience, People

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.

Art, Life, Mind, Moment, Tears, Things

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Future, Happened, I Love You, Romantic, Short Love, Thing

I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.

Authority, Beings, Believe, Equal, Human, Right

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

Control, Dominance, Men, Merely, Powerful, Woman

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

Simple, Over You, Trying, Like, Discover, Role

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?

Black, Kept, Liberty, Progress

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

Equality, Men, Feels, Women, Superior

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

Appearance, Criticize, Face, Faces, Men, Strange

rain is one thing the British do better than anybody else.

British, England, Rain, Thing

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