And 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 CixousThinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.
Helene CixousPerhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.
Helene Cixous