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.
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 CixousPerhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.
Helene CixousIf my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through.
Helene CixousShe alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore language. She lets the other language speak - the language of 1,000 tongues which knows neither enclosure nor death. To life she refuses nothing. Her language does not contain, it carries; it does not hold back; it makes possible.
Helene Cixous