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“And after Mitterrand’s victory she wrote: ‘Le miracle est là: c’est en inventant une gauche complètement libérée de la gauche fasciste issue du stalinisme que l’électorat français a porté le coup le plus décisif au stalinisme’ (‘The miracle is plain to see: by inventing a party of the left completely free of the Fascist left that came out of Stalinism the French electorate has landed the most decisive blow yet against Stalinism’).42”
― Leslie Hill, Marguerite Duras: Apocalyptic Desires

“At any event, like other French women writers or film-makers of her generation, she was not prepared to accept moral tutelage from the women’s movement, and though she continued to speak publicly as a woman she slowly withdrew her – at best rhetorical – support for the militant feminism of the 1970s, which, she implied, did little more than to remind her of the dogmatic moralising she had experienced when once a member of the Communist Party.”
― Leslie Hill, Marguerite Duras: Apocalyptic Desires