Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, essayist and experimental filmmaker. She is best known for writing the 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour, which earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards...
mother children believe
For that's what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.
writing men thinking
There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.
space faces drink
I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me.
war women rain
A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day at war, worse than a man's working day. ... To men, women's work was like the rain-bringing clouds, or the rain itself. The task involved was carried out every day as regularly as sleep. So men were happy - men in the Middle Ages, men at the time of the Revolution, and men in 1986: everything in the garden was lovely.
men differences waiting
Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.
war generalities including
War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.
fear gun fire
I suddenly remember something I've been told about fear. That amid a hail of machine gun fire you notice the existence of your skin.
way today happens
I have never waited for anything the way I've waited for today, when nothing will happen.
judging looks world
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.
women conversation
One must talk. That's how it is. One must.
men offering faithful
Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesnt desire the man offering himself to her. Its the desire of a woman for a man who hasnt yet come to her, whom she doesnt yet know. Shes faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.
opposites wife infidelity
She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
men mind dying
He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds.
children life-is
Life is only lived full-time by women with children.