For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious. But men's superstition or insanity has real and dire consequences for the women who are its object. And states, too, home in on women's bodies, perhaps to create the illusion that men are in control of uncontrollable forces. Indeed, almost all governments try to control women's bodies and regulate their appearance in some way.
Marilyn FrenchThe same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.
Marilyn FrenchOne 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 FrenchControl over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.
Marilyn French