Marguerite Duras Quotes

I always think that women are the chaos managers of life.

Without women to nurture in this world, how do - how do men get by? How do children get by? How does society get by at all?

I was a truly loving mom, but I didn't have the tools to do the job.

Women are encouraged to go on an emotional journey of self-care after a divorce, while men are expected to need help learning how to cook and parent on their own.

There are so many professional women who have to be this boss, but when they get home, it's like, 'Can someone take care of me? Can I not be so powerful?'

Most of my friends are male. And I've known some of them to literally go through mental breakdowns and still not talk about how they feel. Except to me. My shoulders are sodden with the tears of men.

Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we should never need solace.

Women who make a house a home make a far greater contribution to society than those who command large armies or stand at the head of impressive corporations.

Is my job as a child, even as an adult, is my job to heal the wounds of my parents' childhoods?

Alia needs a full support system that I'm happy to provide her.

As a transgender child, I was always looking around for someone like me, because I thought I was the only one. It's hard to feel like that. But having support from my family changed everything. They helped me love myself and embrace who I am.

I just make sure that people around me are fine. There is not a lot I can do anymore. Just support the people. Be with them. But at the end, I've got to go play. And after, we can talk again. But I have to kind of block it for two hours.

Without you I wouldn't have been able to contain the hate. I would have used it against myself. You're the one who helped me control it. My mind spun out to other things. But it always came back to you.

My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.

You have to learn how to care about people without taking on all of their problems.

Too often we women try to tackle chaos that is not ours to fix.

Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.

Men get it. I think us men need you women to help us survive.

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.

When I'm really, really angry, if I'm privileged enough to be next to someone who can hold my anger, I'll definitely take them up on holding the bucket.

Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.