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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. — Helene Cixous

Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me. — Helene Cixous

Power belongs to the smallest and to the dead. — Helene Cixous

People do not see you, / They invent you and accuse you. — Helene Cixous

Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing. — Helene Cixous

You can go on losing after loss. — Helene Cixous

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. — Helene Cixous

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. — Helene Cixous

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

Other-Love is writing's first name. — Helene Cixous

If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through. — Helene Cixous

To fly/steal is woman's gesture, to steal into language to make it fly. — Helene Cixous

In the synagogue of my heart ...
I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked — Helene Cixous

Everything ends with flowers. — Helene Cixous

This whole book is composed of first pages. — Helene Cixous

It is essential to exchange the invisible ring for all that we call survival, survive, survivor. — Helene Cixous

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

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship. — Helene Cixous

A true solitude is not unbearable since it allows for otherness. — Helene Cixous

The author is not only the one who signs but also a completely unknown person blended with (legendary,] mythical, complex, variable consanguinity. — Helene Cixous

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. — Helene Cixous

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable. — Helene Cixous

Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside. — Helene Cixous

I Drink. I Burn. I Dream.
And Sometimes, I tell Stories ! — Helene Cixous

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way. — Helene Cixous

I, too, overflow; ... my body knows unheard-of songs. — Helene Cixous

This is a book of raw flesh. — Helene Cixous

There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn't-eat. — Helene Cixous

And this morning I am without fire, my marrow is ash, I am very sad. — Helene Cixous

Love is when you suddenly wake up as a cannibal, and not just any old cannibal, or else wake up destined for devourment. — Helene Cixous

Me too, I make do, I anoint what cannot be fixed. — Helene Cixous

There are so many kinds of reality, and so many secret openings in the walls we think are mute. — Helene Cixous

Those who are locked up know better than their jailers the taste of free air. — Helene Cixous

Hold still we're going to do your portrait, so that you can begin looking like it right away. — Helene Cixous

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. — Helene Cixous

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 — Helene Cixous

Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them ... — Helene Cixous

Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that frightens us. — Helene Cixous

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

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

They will never forgive us for this Somewhere Else. — Helene Cixous

It is said that life and death are under the power of language. — Helene Cixous

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. — Helene Cixous

Beauty will no longer be forbidden. — Helene Cixous

The more I anoint the more my mind adheres physically to the mysterious fabric of love.
I am decutie. Worn thin. You know that word? — Helene Cixous

So little by little I climb towards life, in the straitjacket of my prison. I don't waste an ounce of air or sun. I explore I bring to light. — Helene Cixous