Marilyn Frye Quotes

#1. What is it about separation, in any or all of its many forms and degrees, that makes it so basic and so sinister, so exciting and so repellent?

Marilyn Frye

#2. Writing is a compulsion

Airam

#3. And if I was bewildered through those decades, totally bewildered, so was the country I came from. The majority, what was the phrase? 'Condemn utterly what is happening, this barbarity.' But that's all we did. Condemn. And march. But not often enough.

Josephine Hart

#4. I wish you would grow to the understanding that you choose heterosexuality.

Marilyn Frye

#5. I want to ask heterosexual academic feminists to do some hard analytical and reflective work. To begin, I want to say to them:

Marilyn Frye

#6. The question was, What could we do?
Could we get up every morning and take showers and put on clothes and go to work? Could we think straight? Could we not say crazy things when they occurred to us?
Some of us could; some of us couldn't. In the world's terms, though, all of us were tainted.

Susanna Kaysen

#7. I would like you to rise each morning and know that you are heterosexual and that you choose to be heterosexual - that you are and choose to be a member of a privileged and dominant class, one of your privileges being not to notice.

Marilyn Frye

#8. What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

Plato

#9. Differences of power are always manifested in asymmetrical access.

Marilyn Frye

#10. I wish you would notice that you are heterosexual.

Marilyn Frye

#11. What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink.

John Olsen

#12. It seems sometimes that people take a deliberately myopic and fill their eyes with things seen microscopically in order not to see macrosopically.

Marilyn Frye

#13. Life is so great that we only get a tiny moment to enjoy everything we see. And that moment is right now. And that moment is counting down. And that moment is always, always fleeting. You will never be as young as you are right now.

Neil Pasricha