Helene Cixous Quotes

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• Everything ends with flowers.
• Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge,…
• Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness…
• I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them back to life
• Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from…
• She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore language. She lets…
• Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.
• We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.
• What happens: events interiors, snatch them from the cradle, from the source. I want to watch watching arrive. I want to watch arrivances. I want…
• Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the…
• Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.
• You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.
• Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.
• Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.
• When I write, it's everything that we don't know we can be that is written out of me, without exclusions, without stipulation, and everything we…
• We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.
• If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through.
• Me too, I make do, I anoint what cannot be fixed.
• in the synagogue of my heart... I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked
• I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the…

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