Quote by Marguerite Duras

Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.

Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire t

Summary

This quote suggests that frigidity in a woman is not a lack of desire for sex or intimacy, but rather a manifestation of her desire for a specific man who is not currently present or known to her. It implies that her faithfulness lies in her longing for this elusive man, and her disinterest or non-desire for anyone else. In essence, frigidity is portrayed as a result of focusing all romantic and sexual passion on a particular individual, while disregarding any other potential partners.

Topics

By Marguerite Duras

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a home-sickness or

A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where the emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my wor

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

Francesca Annis

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement the greatest source of visual beauty the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

David Attenborough

Happiness is no laughing matter.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

Richard Whately

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

People should always have something which they prefer to lif

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Johann G. Seume

Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundat

Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

The common good of a collective -- a race, a class, a state

The common good of a collective -- a race, a class, a state -- was the claim and justification of every tyranny ever established over men. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism? Does the fault lie in men's hypocrisy or in the nature of the principle? The most dreadful butchers were the most sincere. The believed in the perfect society reached through the guillotine and the firing squad. Nobody questioned their right to murder since they were murdering for an altruistic purpose. It was accepted that man must be sacrificed for other men. Actors change, but the course of the tragedy remains the same. A humanitarian who starts with the declarations of love for mankind and ends with a sea of blood. It goes on and will go on so long as men believe that an action is good if it is unselfish. That permits the altruist to act and forces his victims to bear it. The leaders of collectivist movements ask nothing of themselves. But observe the results.

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry a

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

J. Carter Brown

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.