"My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world."

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Source : "Marilyn French, Novelist and Champion of Feminism, Dies at 79" by A. G. Sulzberger, Herbert Mitgang, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2009.

Marilyn French

#Civilization Quotes #Goal Quotes #Feminist Quotes

“If there had never been the Great Migration there would never have been jazz, there would never have been Michelle Obama. A lot of amazing black people exist in this country because of the Great Migration. That's nation-building.”

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“But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.”
“Every Christian should live life with an open Bible and an open map.”
“It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.”
“APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider”
“I started out playing in clubs. I always like existing under ground and over ground at the same time.”
“If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors.”
“It was important to me to change the narrative. It's important because it has an impact on everything you do. It doesn't matter who you are or what business you are running. You would always be seen as some African from the bush trying to run a bank. But we do these things successfully and we shouldn't be seen as second rate. That is the message that we are putting out there.”

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