"Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means……" — Helene Cixous
"Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable."
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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…
- Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.
- 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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