Women
must find their own answer. That’s the important thing. I’m no longer
interested in books about women written by men. Even if I could believe
in their objectivity, I just can’t find their opinions relevant. Now I
will only believe what a woman has to say about women, because even if
it’s not entirely true, it’s her struggle and she’s on the way to the
answer.
Many of you seek masculine approval. Even though you have
inside you your way of talking and writing, you have mountains of it
inside you, and even though it is enough to begin expressing yourselves
so long as it is with your vocabulary, your abstractions, and your own
conceptualization, I think you are still afraid of the master: men. Of
their judgment. As long as you have this fear, you will not progress.
- Marguerite Duras
descensus Averno facilis est