#woman

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#creates #dearest #happiness #help #her

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#being #book #creation #give #human

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#her #into #literature #love #only

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think? ↗

— Robert Duvall

#ballet #country #culture #find #interesting

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#define #i #me #mother #much

And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#assume #assumption #certainly #coat #crook

In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#became #divorced #drive #driver #elusive

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#beautiful #created #excessively #ideal #man

A woman should be an illusion. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#should #woman

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#am #faithful #husband #i #i always