Femme Quotes by Françoise Sagan
Françoise Sagan (real name Francoise Quoriez) was a French playwright, novelist and screenwriter. Best known for her book Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness), which she wrote when she was eighteen, published in 1954. Sagan's work highlighted romantic themes involving disillusioned, but wealthy bourgeois characters. During its time critics raved that it was "vulgar" especially since the author was a mere teenager. Anything that is described as "vulgar" reading only means that it's good (in the same fashion that Americans critiqued of J.D Salinger's Catcher In the Rye - even to the point of burning the copies).
A few quotes by Françoise that resonates well to the modern day woman's lives and loves.
“To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.”
“Art must take reality by surprise. ”
“Love is worth whatever it costs. ”
Francoise and Robert Westhoff at Carrefour Vavin by Sabine Weiss, Paris, 1970s
“I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.”
photographed by Philippe Le Tellier, 1963
“She’d like to be indispensable; that’s what every woman wants...”
“Money may not buy happiness, but I’d rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus. ”
