Helene Cixous Quotes

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

Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.

We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.

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

We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.

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

Everything ends with flowers.

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

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.

There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn’t-eat.

Me too, I make do, I anoint what cannot be fixed.

Other-Love is writing's first name.

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

If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through.

Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.

It is said that life and death are under the power of language.

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

in the synagogue of my heart... I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked

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.