Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness of the solitude. It's as well if you are frightened of solitude. It's a sign that you have come to the moment of your birth.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the transformative power of solitude and its role in personal growth.
Helene Cixous suggests that the 'decisive moment' in life is often when one confronts true solitude, which can be daunting yet essential for personal rebirth and self-discovery. The hesitance to embrace this solitude is not due to fear of emptiness, but rather the overwhelming nature of such vast personal space, signaling a critical point of change and new beginnings.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal growth, this quote can emphasize the importance of solitude in finding oneself.
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 display - the ailing or dead figure, which so often turns out to be the nasty companion, the cause and location of inhibitions. Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. _x000D_ Write your self. Your body must be heard. Only then will the immense resources of the unconscious spring forth.
Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.
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.
Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.
We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.
If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through.
We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are digging beneath the hard and crusty surface to the rich humus of our lives.
It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.
There are two worlds out there - two Americas out there. If you're a white person, there's one way of being a citizen in our country, and if you're a brown or a black body, there's another way of being a citizen, and that way is very close to death. It's very close to the loss of your life.
When you give, give from the place of the heart because it is the right thing to do, not the easy thing to do.
We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before.
Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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