Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.
Helene CixousThe only book that is worth writing is the one we donโt have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed
Helene CixousIf my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through.
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 CixousWouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the Sirens were men) for history to change its meaning? 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 Cixous