French woman Quote by Juliette Binoche

“It is winter. Ravens are standing on a pile of bones -- black typeface on white paper picking an idea clean. It’s what I…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“To write,” Marguerite Duras remarked, “is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.”

— Terry Tempest Williams

Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she…

— Claire Denis

Indeed, I still read a fair amount of French literature and I am very attracted to the emotional depth and simplicity of writers such…

— Carol Drinkwater

As a journalist, I never isolated myself. I was a journalist at a daily newspaper and every day I went out on the street.…

— Maria Teresa Horta

“Sometimes we have to avoid thinking about the problems life presents. Otherwise we'd suffocate." - Hiroshima Mon Amour, Marguerite Duras”

— Marguerite Duras

The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon.…

— Edmund White

“Simone de Beauvoir believed adolescence is when girls realize that men have the power and that their only power comes from consenting to become…

— Mary Pipher

“[ From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex' ] Beauvoir herself was…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“For a woman to be taken as seriously as a man she must be three times as effective. Happily, this is not difficult.--Simone de…

— Gale Martin

I always remind myself that [ Jean-Paul] Sartre and [Simone] de Beauvoir didn't have children. And when you don't have children, it might be…

— Zadie Smith

“Life is about more than just maintaining oneself, it is about extending oneself. Otherwise living is only not dying - SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR (1908-1986)”

— Lin Pardey