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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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Nowhere on your birth certificate did it say life would be fair
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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,…
— Helene Cixous
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In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today,…
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How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is…
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Your birth may be common, But death must be history.
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It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.
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Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up…
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The truth for women living in a modern world is that they must take increasing responsibility for the skills they bring into…
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