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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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A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a…
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The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.
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I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long…
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If your life is worth thinking about,it is worth writing about.
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Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.
— Bette Greene
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It seemed to me that people do a rather good job of creating levels of hell all by themselves, and this was…
— Liza Dalby
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Nothing is worth doing at all, nothing is worth writing, which does not do something which will last.
— Amy Carmichael
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But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing…
— Seth Godin
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The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart.
— Susan Sontag
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Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.
— Jonathan Franzen
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I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
— Truman Capote
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