 "We always find departure connected to decisive dreams: the bed is pushed aside."
From Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, Hélène Cixous, translated by Sarah Cornell and Susan Sellers  "But the most difficult thing for human beings to do is to think ahead, to put ourselves in the shoes of those we have not yet been."
From Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, Hélène Cixous, translated by Sarah Cornell and Susan Sellers  "Writing is not arriving; most of the time it's not arriving. One must go on foot, with the body. One has to go away, leave the self. How far must one not arrive in order to write, how far must one wander and wear out and have pleasure? One must walk as far as the night. One's own night. Walking through the self toward the dark."
From Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, Hélène Cixous, translated by Sarah Cornell and Susan Sellers  "We who live, eat, desire as we are looked upon. We who are looked-at lookers. But who never see ourselves as we are looked at, nor as we are seen."
From Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, Hélène Cixous, translated by Sarah Cornell and Susan Sellers  "This is a metaphor. It's looking at what what must not be looked at, at what would prevent us from existing, from continuing our ordinary, domestic lives, and what I call, for better or worse: 'the truth'."
From Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, Hélène Cixous, translated by Sarah Cornell and Susan Sellers |
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