Quote by: Marguerite Duras

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.


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Author Bio


  • NameMarguerite Duras
  • DescriptionFrench writer and film director
  • BornApril 4, 1914
  • DiedMarch 3, 1996
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionWriter; Film Director; Screenwriter; Publisher; Novelist; Playwright; Autobiographer
  • WorksThe Lover
  • AwardsPrix Goncourt; Austrian State Prize For European Literature