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
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… - Helene Cixous
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…
- Helene Cixous
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 … - Helene Cixous
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 …
Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies… - Helene Cixous
Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies…
Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and … - Helene Cixous
Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and …
We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us. - Helene Cixous
We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.
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. - Helene Cixous
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.
Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort. - Helene Cixous
Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.
We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing. - Helene Cixous
We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.
Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard. - Helene Cixous
Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.
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