Helene Cixous Quotes
Top 46 wise famous quotes and sayings by Helene Cixous
Helene Cixous Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.
And I? I drink, I burn, I gather dreams.
And sometimes I tell a story. Because Promethea asks me for a bowl of words before she goes to sleep.
And sometimes I tell a story. Because Promethea asks me for a bowl of words before she goes to sleep.
My voice repels death; my death; your death; my voice is my other. I write and you are not dead. The other is safe if I write.
Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.
I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.
The author is not only the one who signs but also a completely unknown person blended with (legendary,] mythical, complex, variable consanguinity.
This book is my obliging you. This is a book I never would have dared write, if I did not feel protected and obligated by your madness.
Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.
Love is when you suddenly wake up as a cannibal, and not just any old cannibal, or else wake up destined for devourment.
And I want to become a woman I can love. I want to meet women who love themselves, who are alive, who are not debased, overshadowed, wiped out.
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
Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them ...
Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that frightens us.
I did not even know this existed ... this world, I did not know. I thought it existed only in one's head, and in dreams ... And now: here I am.