Love is when you suddenly wake up as a cannibal, and not just any old cannibal, or else wake up destined for devourment.

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.

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.

I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.

Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness of the solitude. It's as well if you are frightened of solitude. It's a sign that you have come to the moment of your birth.

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.