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Marilyn French

"Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains."

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"Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains."

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"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."

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"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"

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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

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"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."

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"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

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"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

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"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

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"The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man."

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"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

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"Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible."

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"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."
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"Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?"
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"'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes."
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"Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes."
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