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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,…
• Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void,…
• I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them…
• Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as…
• She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.

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