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"I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion."
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"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."
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"After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi."
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"There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner."
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"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."
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"Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing."
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"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"
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"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."
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"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."
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"A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression."
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Explore more quotes by Marguerite Duras


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


"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."
Family


"The best way to fill time is to waste it."
Time


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


"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."
Journalism


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


"In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that."
Love


"You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable."
Love


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


"It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him."
Happiness
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