"The only book that is worth writing is……" — Helene Cixous
"The only book that is worth writing is the one we don’t have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed"
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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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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
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You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?
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Sweat more during peace: bleed less during war
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I ain't got time to bleed.
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