Quotes by Duras, Marguerite

A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting chil >>

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can >>

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very >>

Quotations about Frigidity

Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one >>

Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show. >>

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a lit >>

Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.

Duras, Marguerite