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

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

Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and …

- 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.

- Helene Cixous

We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.

- Helene Cixous

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.

- Helene Cixous

Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.

- Helene Cixous

We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.

- Helene Cixous