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 CixousExplore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.
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 CixousI 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