 "How can it be written? With the hand running. Following the writing hand like the painter draws: in flashes."
From Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, Hélène Cixous, translated by Sarah Cornell and Susan Sellers  "So this is how it happens. That is how we keep -- without even realizing it -- crossing invisible borders..."
From Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, Hélène Cixous, translated by Sarah Cornell and Susan Sellers  "Reading is a wonderful metaphor for all kinds of joy that are called vicious."
From Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, Hélène Cixous, translated by Sarah Cornell and Susan Sellers  "This is our emotional, our personal, and political problem, the fact that we can't bear exclusion. We are afraid of it, we hate to be separated, that is why we are apt to commit all kinds of small crimes, self-denials, and treachery."
From Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, Hélène Cixous, translated by Sarah Cornell and Susan Sellers  "If I gather these beings to talk about them in the same way, if I am worried by the fate of birds and women, it is because I have learned that not many people -- unfortunately -- or perhaps fortunately -- can really love, tolerate, or understand a certain kind of writing; I am using women and birds as synonyms."
From Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, Hélène Cixous, translated by Sarah Cornell and Susan Sellers |
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