Nature is a universal that is shareable by all, males and females, men and women, and can thus be of use in mediating between all. The same does not apply for already constructed worlds and cultures. They are neither universal nor easily shareable.
Luce IrigarayBe what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.
Luce Irigarayletting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.
Luce IrigarayBetween gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-manโs land of the heights of heaven, the depths of hell, and inside the boundary traced by the oceans. Dimensions installed by a cosmogonic trilogy that leaves each term in its generic place. There remains the earth ancestress, a fourth term, that was once the most fertile, that has been progressively buried and forgotten beneath the architectonic of patriarchal sovereignty. And this murder erupts in the form of ambivalences that have constantly to be solved and hierarchized, in twinned pairs of more or less good doubles.
Luce Irigaray