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I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.

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They leave the genitals off Barbie and Ken, but they manufacture every kind of war toy. Because sex is more threatening to us than aggression.

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My 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 don't even need to shrug. I simply don't care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames and yearnings were, simply don't matter.

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In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if the howling winds came from her belly, she cries like a storm that will never end.

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The truth is that it is not the sins of the fathers that descend unto the third generation, but the sorrows of the mothers.

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Marilyn French

Marilyn French

Born: November 21, 1929

Died: May 2, 2009 (aged 79)

Bio: Marilyn French was a feminist American author.

Known for:

The Women's Room (1977)
The war against women (1992)
Beyond Power (1985)
From Eve to Dawn (2002)
The Bleeding Heart (1980)

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