Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.
Helene CixousDecisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness of the solitude. It's as well if you are frightened of solitude. It's a sign that you have come to the moment of your birth.
Helene CixousPerhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.
Helene CixousI am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.
Helene CixousAnd 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