Contemplating Quote by Nicole Brossard

The lesbian is a threatening reality for reality.

— Nicole Brossard

The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body,…

— Nicole Brossard

The lesbian is a mental energy which gives breath and meaning to the most positive of images a woman can have of herself.

— Nicole Brossard

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

— Nicole Brossard

“Yet the voice could take fright . This Kathy Kerouac foresaw only too well when syllables suddenly started coming out of her mouth like…

— Nicole Brossard

I cannot get close to any you.

— Nicole Brossard

A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing.

— Nicole Brossard

A lesbian is a radical or she is not a lesbian.

— Nicole Brossard

... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.

— Nicole Brossard

“Then I stop existing. She is talking, talking, takes off who knows where, she says it all starts over, speech, paths, butterflies and that…

— Nicole Brossard

“To write, for a lesbian, is to learn to take down the patriarchal posters in her room. It means learning to live with bare…

— Nicole Brossard

“I am trying to imagine language without light, as though I wanted to understand how things were before language, when, deep in the throat,…

— Nicole Brossard