"Perhaps what I do not manage to operate……" — Helene Cixous
"Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside."
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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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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and…
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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't…
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If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick…
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We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature;…
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going…
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I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.
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All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know…
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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out…
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