Marguerite Duras

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask read more

The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children.

Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of read more

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.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved read more

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her nearest read more

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.