69 Quotes by Hélène Cixous

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

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.

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

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.

Women's imaginary is inexhaustible, like music, painting, writing: their stream of phantasms is incredible.

But I may also be afraid.I am afraid.I have already read it. And, not to lie to you, I liked it. But I am afraid. I am not afraid of you, Fidelia, Sania, Ania. I am afraid of you.(I put all this in my separate notebook. My doubtbook.)

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

When I write, it's everything that we don't know we can be that is written out of me, without exclusions, without stipulation, and everything we will be calls us to the unflagging, intoxicating, unappeasable search for love. In one another we will never be lacking.

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