Duras

Famous quotes containing the word duras:

    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.
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)

    The best way to fill time is to waste it.
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)

    I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met.
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)