Hélène Cixous Quotes

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.

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.

I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them back to life

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

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

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

Other-Love is writing's first name.

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

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.

Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.

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

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.

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

I see nothing. I do not move. It is an empty time, animal time, vigilant, I am submerged, under the earth and under time. I listen. Perhaps the waiting is a form of prayer.

To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.

People do not see you, / They invent you and accuse you.

Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the Sirens were men) for history to change its meaning?

Hold still we're going to do your portrait, so that you can begin looking like it right away.

I Drink. I Burn. I Dream.And Sometimes, I tell Stories !

And I? I drink, I burn, I gather dreams.And sometimes I tell a story. Because Promethea asks me for a bowl of words before she goes to sleep.

You can go on losing after loss.