![]() ![]() ![]() She might even have courted the frustrated, directionless self-immolation that sometimes comes of being angry with oneself. ![]() ![]() Yet French had good reason to be angry on her own account. But despite her claims to being "an angry person", she was too practical to indulge in emotional pyrotechnics when there was work to be done. French felt angry on behalf of all those women. No one can read The War Against Women, or any other work that attempts simply to document the facts about the uniform appearance of an overwhelming majority of women in all cultures at the bottom of the economic and political heap, without understanding that life's adversities invariably impact on females more profoundly than they impact on males. Interviewing her on the occasion of the publication of her 1992 exploration of female subjugation around the world, The War Against Women, I found her almost inscrutable, because her own tranquillity was at such odds with the storm of frustration and anger her writing provoked in so many of those who read it. In the flesh Marilyn French was all calm and kindliness, an extraordinarily meditative presence. ![]()
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