Quotes from Helene Cixous

I, too, overflow; my desires have invented new desires, my body knows unheard-of songs

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 us this ladder has a descending movement, because the ascent , which evokes effort and difficulty, is toward the bottom. I say ascent downward because we ordinarily believe the descent is easy. The writers I love are descenders , explorers of the lowest and deepest.

I have volcanoes on my lands. But no lava: what wants to flow is breath.

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

Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one that laughs at the very idea of pronouncing the word "silence"...In one another we will never be lacking.

All literature is scarry.

Everything ends with flowers.

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.

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.

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