“Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.” ThinkingDiesDrinkDrinkingKillingAlcoholismWanting To DieKilling Yourself Book:Practicalities Source: Practicalities
“There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.” ThinkingMenShouldWritingLiterature Author:Marguerite Duras
“When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.” ThinkingWritingDoeBookHurtWipe Author:Marguerite Duras
“I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.” ThinkingWantYearsBeautifulFacesYoungKnownYour FaceYoung Women Book:The Lover Source: The Lover
“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.” ThinkingKnowsProblemCareBeautifulLyingClothesExpensiveDistinctionElsewhereCreamBeautiful Women Author:Marguerite Duras
“I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence, amazing. It’s the only image of myself I like, the only one in which I recognize myself, in which I delight” ThinkingI CanSilenceDelight Author:Marguerite Duras
