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> [“Yet the voice could take fright . This Kathy Kerouac foresaw only too well when syllables suddenly started coming out of her mouth like little fragments of oblivion giving her the impression she was contradicting herself. It was in these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-brossard/yet-the-voice-could-take-fright-this-kathy-kerouac-foresaw-only-too/)

[Nicole Brossard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-brossard/)

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> [“Kathy Kerouac knew the power of her voice. It was, she said, her 'golden thing,' an amulet protecting her against all disorders of the spirit. Her voice was a charm that could stop violence and transform crudeness into curtesy, foolishness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-brossard/kathy-kerouac-knew-the-power-of-her-voice-it-was-she-said-her-golden/)

[Nicole Brossard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-brossard/)

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## Other authors on Kerouac

## More by Nicole Brossard

> [The lesbian is a threatening reality for reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-brossard/the-lesbian-is-a-threatening-reality-for-reality/)

[Nicole Brossard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-brossard/)

> [Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength. Force of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-brossard/poetry-i-m-returning-to-it-never-leaves-me-it-s-my-genre-completely/)

[Nicole Brossard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-brossard/)

> [The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-brossard/the-text-moves-like-a-small-crustacean-with-compound-eye-and-complex/)

[Nicole Brossard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-brossard/)

> [The lesbian is a mental energy which gives breath and meaning to the most positive of images a woman can have of herself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-brossard/the-lesbian-is-a-mental-energy-which-gives-breath-and-meaning-to-the/)

[Nicole Brossard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-brossard/)

> [To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-brossard/to-be-a-poet-is-to-place-pleasure-beauty-and-sensual-delights-front/)

[Nicole Brossard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-brossard/)

> [“Yet the voice could take fright . This Kathy Kerouac foresaw only too well when syllables suddenly started coming out of her mouth like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-brossard/yet-the-voice-could-take-fright-this-kathy-kerouac-foresaw-only-too/)

[Nicole Brossard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-brossard/)

> [I cannot get close to any you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-brossard/i-cannot-get-close-to-any-you/)

[Nicole Brossard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-brossard/)

> [A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-brossard/a-lesbian-who-does-not-reinvent-the-world-is-a-lesbian-in-the-process/)

[Nicole Brossard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-brossard/)

> [A lesbian is a radical or she is not a lesbian.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-brossard/a-lesbian-is-a-radical-or-she-is-not-a-lesbian/)

[Nicole Brossard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-brossard/)

> [... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-brossard/if-patriarchy-can-take-what-exists-and-make-it-not-surely-we-can-take/)

[Nicole Brossard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-brossard/)

> [“Then I stop existing. She is talking, talking, takes off who knows where, she says it all starts over, speech, paths, butterflies and that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-brossard/then-i-stop-existing-she-is-talking-talking-takes-off-who-knows-where/)

[Nicole Brossard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-brossard/)

> [“To write, for a lesbian, is to learn to take down the patriarchal posters in her room. It means learning to live with bare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-brossard/to-write-for-a-lesbian-is-to-learn-to-take-down-the-patriarchal/)

[Nicole Brossard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-brossard/)

> [“I am trying to imagine language without light, as though I wanted to understand how things were before language, when, deep in the throat,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-brossard/i-am-trying-to-imagine-language-without-light-as-though-i-wanted-to/)

[Nicole Brossard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-brossard/)

> [Mêmewars is electricity in language, eccentricity at its best where 'there's a profusion of presents.' This book makes eye contact with she and with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-brossard/m-mewars-is-electricity-in-language-eccentricity-at-its-best-where/)

[Nicole Brossard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-brossard/)

> [Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-brossard/lesbians-are-the-poets-of-the-humanity-of-women/)

[Nicole Brossard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-brossard/)

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