Marilyn French Quotes

'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.

Marilyn French

• Up
• She
• Hate

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Myself
  • Spirit

• Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Yourself

• Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

  

  Sallust
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Wish

• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Cold
  • Friendship

• My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Doing

• The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • Music
  • Back
  • Aggressive

• I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Depression
  • Mental Illness

• God isn't really interested in our batting averages.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • God
  • Interested
  • Batting

• One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Career
  • Point
  • Committed

• Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Time
  • Inevitable
  • Incredible

• For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Love
  • Me
  • Boy

• I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Today

• All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

  

  Aaliyah
  • God
  • Hope
  • Hands

• I'm so excited and honored to be part of 'Entertainment Tonight!' 'E.T.' was the show that started all the entertainment news, so I couldn't be more thrilled.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • News
  • Excited
  • Entertainment

• Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Think
  • Artists
  • Actually

• Perhaps the hardest challenge has been to persuade the public, impatient for rapid growth, of the need to ensure stability first. Growth, it is argued, is always more important, regardless of the looming economic risks.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Important
  • Challenge
  • Growth

• Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Game
  • Games
  • Selfish

• Daß man wird, was man ist, setzt voraus, daß man nicht im entferntesten ahnt, was man ist.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Never
  • Old
  • Judges

• You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.

  

  Danny Kaye

• For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and making that my stomping ground... That was a big thing, because I'm from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Downtown

• It's important to me that I don't spend too much time away from the family. I try to pick jobs that will keep me as close to home as possible or, if I have to go far away, for as little time as possible.

  

  Mark Strong
  • Time
  • Important
  • Family

• '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.

  

  Marilyn French
  • Up
  • She
  • Hate