Author: Marilyn French

Quotes

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

- Marilyn French

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

- 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.

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

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

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

- Marilyn French

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

- 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.

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

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

- Marilyn French

Men's 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.

Men's 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

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