Quotes by Duras, Marguerite

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gap >>

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help >>

The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination reside >>

Quotations about Mothers

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. >>

A busy mother makes slothful daughters. >>

God couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers >>

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

Duras, Marguerite