Quotes by Duras, Marguerite

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

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most. >>

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Al >>

Quotations about Mothers

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. >>

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natu >>

A mother who is really a mother is never free. >>

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.

Duras, Marguerite