Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.

- Luce Irigaray

Nature is a universal that is shareable by all, males and females, men and women, and can thus be of use in mediating between all. The same does not …

- Luce Irigaray

Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man’s land of the heights of heaven, the depths of hell, and inside the boundary tra…

- Luce Irigaray

Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.

- Luce Irigaray

Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability to welcome the other as …

- Luce Irigaray

...more than other senses, the eye objectifies and masters. it sets at a distance, maintains the distance. in our culture, the predominance of the lo…

- Luce Irigaray

Every desire has a relation to madness.

- Luce Irigaray

letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.

- Luce Irigaray

Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she …

- Luce Irigaray