To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
—Marilyn French
Topics: Parents, Parenting
One 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 French
Topics: Arts, Artists, Art
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 French
Topics: Love
Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you’re trying to escape?
—Marilyn French
Topics: Identity
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