Marguerite Duras - Women Quotes

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It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

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I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think.

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

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A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day at war, worse than a man's working day.... To men, women's work was like the rain-bringing clouds, or the rain itself. The task involved was carried out every day as regularly as sleep. So men were happy - men in the Middle Ages, men at the time of the Revolution, and men in 1986: everything in the garden was lovely.

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