Duras

Famous quotes containing the word duras:

    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.
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)

    It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)

    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.
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)