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.
Marilyn FrenchWomen are afraid in a world in which almost half the population bears the guise of the predator, in which no factor - age, dress, or color - distinguishes a man who will harm a woman from one who will not.
Marilyn FrenchMarriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but it magnified the bad things, so they came to feel as painful as a grain in one's eye. An open window, a forgotten quart of milk, a TV set left blaring, socks on the bathroom floor could become occasions for incredible rage.
Marilyn FrenchWhen they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?
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 FrenchMy 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 donโt even need to shrug. I simply donโt care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames and yearnings were, simply donโt matter.
Marilyn French