"Censor the body and you censor breath and……" — Helene Cixous

"Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard."

— Helene Cixous

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26 Quotes by Helene Cixous

Helene Cixous has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Everything ends with flowers.
Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations…
Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not…
I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and…
Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven…
She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance…
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…
Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening…
You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and…
Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles…

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More Body Quotes

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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