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
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All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes.
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?
Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?
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.
To nourish children and raise then against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
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.
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.
When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?
You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.
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