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Helene Cixous has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Everything ends with flowers.
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Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes,…
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Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void,…
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I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them…
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Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as…
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She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore…
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Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.
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We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.
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What happens: events interiors, snatch them from the cradle, from the source. I want to watch watching arrive. I want to watch…
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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…
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Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.
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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.
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The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.
— Mark Twain
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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but…
— Francis Bacon
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Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage…
— Francis Parkman
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Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes,…
— Helene Cixous
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
— John Dryden
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
— Alexander Pope
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I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place…
— Michel Houellebecq
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They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely…
— Virginia Woolf
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We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and…
— William Golding
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In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even…
— Andrzej Wajda
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