I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.
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 CixousIf my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through.
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 CixousWoman 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 Cixous