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

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

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

I 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.

in the synagogue of my heart... I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked

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.

Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies - for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Woman must put herself into the text - as into the world and into history - by her own movement.