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 CixousI am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.
Helene Cixousin the synagogue of my heart... I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked
Helene CixousWe must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.
Helene CixousWomen must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one that laughs at the very idea of pronouncing the word "silence"...In one another we will never be lacking.
Helene Cixous