Elula Perrin

Elula Perrin (1929 – 22 May 2003) was a French writer, nightclub owner, and a pioneering figure in Paris’s lesbian nightlife. She co‑founded Le Katmandou, one of the first women‑only nightclubs in Paris.

Quotes

• One can never say enough how moving a first kiss is.
  • Alice au pays des femmes (Perrin, 1997)

• I love difficulty. Things easily won have less value.
  • Mousson de femmes (Perrin, 1985)

• I love hearing people talk about France. You can't imagine how much I would like to know it. Sometimes at night, when I was little, I would dream that I was finally there. I would wake up and cry under my mosquito net when I realized it was only a dream.
  • Mousson de femmes (Perrin, 1985)

• Opium awakens the appetite at first, during that initial phase it never surpasses.Afterwards... nothing matters anymore — not love, not hunger, not anguish, not death.
  • Mousson de femmes (Perrin, 1985)