Marguerite Duras Quotes

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

While we may have taken away some of the criminal element when we repealed prohibition, we certainly didn't solve the problem of alcoholism.

I refer to the fact, acknowledged now by all professionals in the field, that alcoholism as such is not a legal problem—it is a health problem.

If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.

When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.

Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.

Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.

When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard.

People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.

It's still unacceptable for women to have negative emotions, especially anger, and I was trying to write against that.

I am scared of stepping out of the house, because of what people will think of me. In our society, men and women are looked at differently anyway, and that's even truer if you are an actress.

I love how controversial pink is. Men still feel uncomfortable wearing pink. It's ridiculous.

Shrillness is not the inevitable curse of the fairer sex.

When I was a young girl I had to deal with people calling me weird and strange because I spent so much time around boys playing football.

Our culture tends to denigrate things that are associated with women. It's OK for women to wear trousers, for example, but not OK for men to wear skirts.

We cannot base our judgment on binaries such as a person's gender.

I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.

A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.