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Marilyn French, born on November 21, 1929 and died on May 2, 2009, was a prominent American author known for her feminist perspective in her works. Her writings focused on the status of women in society, family, and sexuality, with notable works including 'The Feminine Mystique'.

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“in a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box.”

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Book:The Women's Room

Source: The Women's Room

“S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or at the factory, can happen between people of any gender. There is obviously something titillating about these relationships, but it isn't the sexual components that makes them ugly, they're uglier elsewhere. Nothing sexual is depraved. Only cruelty is depraved, and that's another matter.”

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Book:The Women's Room

Source: The Women's Room

“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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Book:The Women's Room

Source: The Women's Room

“The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.”

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Author:Marilyn French

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Born: November 21, 1929
Died: May 2, 2009
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Quotes: 97

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From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1Related source material

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The Bleeding Heart: A NovelRelated source material

The Women of Marilyn French: Her Mother's Daughter, Our Father, and The Bleeding HeartRelated source material

Her Mother's Daughter: A NovelRelated source material

A Season in Hell: A MemoirRelated source material

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From Eve to Dawn, A History of Women in the World: Revolutions and Struggles for Justice in the 20th CenturyRelated source material

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