Women 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.

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.

Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

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.

Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me.

The only book that is worth writing is the one we don’t have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed