"I am sick of death and worst of……" — Helene Cixous
"I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted."
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Helene Cixous
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26 Quotes by Helene Cixous
Helene Cixous has 26 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not…
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I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and…
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Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven…
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She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
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I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't…
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