Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras (pronounced: [maÊ.É¡É™.Êit dy.Êas]) (4 April 1914 - 3 March 1996) was a French writer and film director.
She was born in Gia-Dinh (a former name for Saigon), French Indochina (now Vietnam), after her parents responded to a campaign by the French government encouraging people to work in the colony.
Marguerite's father fell ill soon after their arrival, and returned to France, where he died. After his death, her mother, a teacher, remained in Indochina with her three children. The family lived in relative poverty after her mother made a bad investment in an isolated property and area of farmland in Cambodia. The difficult life that the family experienced during this period was highly influential on Marguerite's later work. An affair between the teenaged Marguerite and a Chinese man was to be treated several times (described in quite contrasting ways) in her subsequent memoirs and fiction. She also reported being beaten by both her mother and her older brother during this period.
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. women
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most. men
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him. happiness
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. 22 quotes from Robert Browning
22 quotes from Robert Browning
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. 53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. 5 more sayings from Isadora Duncan
5 more sayings from Isadora Duncan
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart. 58 wisdom & wit from Henry Ward Beecher
58 wisdom & wit from Henry Ward Beecher