16 Quotes by Luce Irigaray

Your body expresses yesterday in what it wants today. If you think: yesterday I was, tomorrow I shall be, you are thinking: I have died a little. Be what you are becoming, without clinging to what you might have been, what you might yet be. Never settle. Leave definitiveness to the undecided; we don't need it.

The human in what it is objectively ever since its beginning is two, two who are different. Each part of what constitutes the unity of the human species corresponds to a proper being and a proper Being, to an identity of one's own. In order to carry out the destiny of humanity, the man-human and the woman-human each have to fulfill what they are and at the same time realize the unity that they constitute.

Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension, before every utterance on earth, there is a cloud, an almost immobile air. The plants already breathe, while we still ask ourselves how to speak to each other, without taking breath away from them.

Bir ilişki her kim tarafından uyarlanırsa uyarlansın, asla sadece birinin kendine ait değildir. İlişki bir ve öteki arasında gerçekleşir, iki aracılığıyla üretilir ve sürdürülür. Bu iki arasındaki, bir ve öteki arasındaki farklılığın açılımında yer alır ancak, ikiden doğduğu için en birine ne de ötekine özgü değildir. Belki de bu ilişki, herhangi muhtemel bir uygunluğun dışında, onu yok etmeden uygunlaştırmanın mümkün olmadığı, varoluşun başka bir tarzda cevhere dönüştüğü biricik yerdir.

Why only one song, one speech, one text at a time?" - "When Our Lips Speak Together

Our [western] culture cuts us off from our natural roots, instead of contributing toward the cultivation of the natural beings we are. This tradition has, in this way, rendered us extraneous to our environment, extraneous to one another as living beings, en even extraneous to ourselves.

Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.

Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one’s own life.

Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our ‘salvation’ if we thought it through.