Nicole Brossard Quotes

... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.

To write, you must first belong to yourself.

Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

A lesbian is a radical or she is not a lesbian.

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.

A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing.

The lesbian is a threatening reality for reality.

The lesbian is a mental energy which gives breath and meaning to the most positive of images a woman can have of herself.

Mêmewars is electricity in language, eccentricity at its best where 'there's a profusion of presents.' This book makes eye contact with she and with me. It reminds me how being a reader can be exciting.

Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women.