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 CixousCensor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.
Helene CixousWriting is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me.
Helene Cixous