37 quotes found
Writer · French · 1937
French writer (born 1937)
“You can go on losing after loss.”
“People do not see you, / They invent you and accuse you.”
“I Drink. I Burn. I Dream.And Sometimes, I tell Stories !”
“To fly/steal is womans gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.”
“Hold still we're going to do your portrait, so that you can begin looking like it right away.”
“Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.”
“Almost every day I can feel myself suffering mainly in the head, I can explain the pain to myself but knowing it comes from an inflammation of my imagination doesn't prevent it being reality itself...”
“We should write as we dream; we should even try and write, we should all do it for ourselves, its very healthy, because its the only place where we never lie. At night we dont lie. Now if we think ...”
“I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them back to life”
“I, too, overflow; my desires have invented new desires, my body knows unheard-of songs. Time and again I, too, have felt so full of luminous torrents that I could burst-burst with forms much more b...”
“Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the Sirens were men) for history to change its meaning?”
“Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyo...”
“I see nothing. I do not move. It is an empty time, animal time, vigilant, I am submerged, under the earth and under time. I listen. Perhaps the waiting is a form of prayer.”
“And, why don't you write? Write! Writing is for you, you are for you, your body is yours, take it. I know why you haven't written. (And why I didn't write before the age of twenty-seven.) Because w...”
“They grab you by the breasts, they pluck your derriere, they stuff you in a pot, they saute you with sperm, they grab you by the beak, they stick you in a house, they fatten you up on conjugal oil,...”
“The future must no longer be determined by the past. I do not deny thatthe effects of the past are still with us. But I refuse to strengthen themby repeating them, to confer upon them an irremovabi...”
“I write woman: woman must write woman. And man, man. So only anoblique consideration will be found here of man; its up to him to saywhere his masculinity and femininity are at: this will concern us...”
“But I am just a woman who thinks her duty is not to forget. And this duty, which I believe I must fulfill, is: "as a woman" living now I must repeat again and again "I am a woman," because we exist...”
“--All that because Promethea is a woman? All this uproar, this trembling, this resistance?--Yes. No. Y-Yes...Naynayno. Whynoyes.Yes, Promethea is a woman.Yes, but "because is a woman," that is not ...”
“When I write, it's everything that we don't know we can be that is written out of me, without exclusions, without stipulation, and everything we will be calls us to the unflagging, intoxicating, un...”
“Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.”
“And why don't you write? Write! Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it. I know why you haven't written. (And why I didn't write before the age of twenty-seven.) Because wr...”
