Marilyn French Quotes

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?

Marilyn French

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 21, 1929 - May 2, 2009

Topics

ProgressBlackYouOutBecauseWere

I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.

Jim Barksdale

WorkBusinessDoneWayImproveGets

My question about everything I do is, does it make our country stronger?

Joe Donnelly

StrongerCountryQuestionEverything

Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is.

Jerry Jeff Walker

MusicCountryPlayCountry Music

Presidents have to learn how to adapt. Every president comes into the job; it's different than they expect. They must adapt.

John Dickerson

JobLearnAdaptPresidentExpect

I can understand if you think that I'm disrespecting the flag by kneeling, but it is because of my utmost respect for the flag and the promise it represents that I have chosen to demonstrate in this way.

Megan Rapinoe

RespectThinkYouI CanUnderstand

I grew up in L.A. in a school that was diverse, but it was not really integrated, so I didn't ever fully fit in with the black girls or the white girls or the Latina girls.

Meghan Markle

SchoolBlackWhiteLatinaUpFit

We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.

Sonia Sotomayor

LawFactsFeelingsApply

Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

Rose Wilder Lane

LifeQualityEffortWritingDefeated

Over the years, I've found myself wishing sometimes my angel would show up. I could use a little uplift, a little reminder.

Roma Downey

MyselfAngelSometimesOverUpShow

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Michel Foucault

FreedomAuthorityMoreConscience

I'm not a girl anymore.

Miranda Lambert

GirlAnymore

A good novel is an out-of-self experience. It lifts you off the ground so that you have the sensation of flying. It says, 'Look at the world around you; learn from the people in these pages, neither quite me nor quite you, how life is lived in so many different ways.'

Julia Glass

LifeGoodExperiencePeopleWorld

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