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…

Quote by Marguerite Duras

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Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the...

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the...

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

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

The best way to fill time is to waste it

The best way to fill time is to waste it

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives...

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives...

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't...

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't...

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else,...

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else,...

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace...

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace...

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only...

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only...

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

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

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have...

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have...

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully...

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully...

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these...

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these...

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a...

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a...

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like...

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like...

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be...

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be...

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

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