And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that writing is walking on a dizzying silence setting one word after the other on emptiness. Writing is miraculous and terrifying like the flight of a bird who has no wings but flings itself out and only gets wings by flying.
- Helene Cixous
More Quotes By Helene Cixous
Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me.
Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and... Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have... By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her,... You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she’s not deadly. She’s... Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must... Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.
We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.
She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear... We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.
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