Quotes About Hélène Cixous

A feminine textual body is recognized by the fact that it is always endless, without ending: there's no closure, it doesn't stop, and it's this that very often makes the feminine text difficult to read," wrote Hélène Cixous, in a sentence that could definitely have been shorter.

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

Losing is all that's left, I say. - Losing is all we've got left to lose, you say The impossibility of not telling, I cannot do otherwise, one can only tell otherwise, with always the same need to make sense of what you've lost, the need not to lose this feeling of losing, the need to feel yourself not losing this feeling that you are still losing the irreplaceable.

So I'll take all your books. But the cathedrals I'll leave behind. Their stone is sad and male.

What color was his voice? A very beautiful voice. No one can give us the same feeling of beauty and kindness. […] He'd say that he could hear the sun rising.