69 Quotes by Hélène Cixous

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

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.

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

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

Other-Love is writing's first name.

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.

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

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