Helene Cixous Quotes

I would like so much to be a woman without thinking about it.

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

When I do not write, it’s as though I’m dead.

One wakes only to the touch of love. Before then, we are only gardens without sorrows, spaces swarming with erotic bodies, landscapes of seas full of fish, flesh without cares.

Words are taken alive from a defunct language.

I have searched for myself across time and have not found myself anywhere.

Time, the world and the person only encounter one another once.

I have few words. My father, who had all of them, left so suddenly that he did not have the time to give them all to me.

The only incontestable difference is not that of sex or age or strength, but that of the living and the dead.

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