Citat af Marilyn French: "The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.". Originalfoto: pixabay.com. Citatcollage: Maria Busch
Citat af Marilyn French: "The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters." Originalfoto: pixabay.com. Citatcollage: Maria Busch“The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.”

Marilyn French (1929-2009) var en amerikansk forfatter, professor i engelsk og feminist, der udtalte at: “My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of Western civilization, to make it a feminist world”. Hun gjorde sit bedste, men som vi ved, så lykkedes hendes projekt ikke.

Hvis du endnu ikke har læst Kvinder (1978) – The Women’s Room (1977); Det blødende hjerte (1980)  The Bleeding Heart – og Sin mors datter – Her Mother’s Daughter (1987) har du noget at glæde dig til.

Anbefalet artikel:
Obituary: Marilyn French, The Guardian, 5. maj 2009

Marilyn French citat om kvindeundertrykkelse