Marguerite Duras Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.”

“I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.”

“I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”

“Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.”

“Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.”

“It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.”