Mens 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. – 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
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 cant even think straight. – Marilyn French
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. – Marilyn French
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by St