Occupation: Professor Birth: June 5, 1937
You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing..
We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us..
Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and ….
Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort..
And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that writing is walking on a dizzying silence….
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 make….
There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn’t-eat..
By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned into the uncanny stranger on ….
Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me..
When I write, it's everything that we don't know we can be that is written out of me, without exclusions, without stipulation, and everything we will….
Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the Sirens we….
Everything ends with flowers..
If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through..
in the synagogue of my heart... I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked.
Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way..
What happens: events interiors, snatch them from the cradle, from the source. I want to watch watching arrive. I want to watch arrivances. I want to ….
It is said that life and death are under the power of language..
I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship..
Love is when you suddenly wake up as a cannibal, and not just any old cannibal, or else wake up destined for devourment..
Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them..
I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them back to life.