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public display and operatic suffering—an in-your-face owning of one’s vulnerability and fucked-upness to the point of embarrassing and offending tight-asses is a powerful feminist strategy. Writing is tough work, I don’t see how anyone can really write from a position of weakness. Sometimes I may start out in that position, but the act of commandeering words flips me into a position of power.

feminism, writing

Hélène Cixous

–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 important.But no it precisely its not being important that is so important.

feminism, writing

Hélène Cixous

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 writing is at once too high, too great for you, it’s reserved for the great-that is for “great men”; and it’s “silly.”Besides, you’ve written a little, but in secret. And it wasn’t good, because it was in secret, and because you punished yourself for writing, because you didn’t go all the way, or because you wrote, irresistibly, as when we would masturbate in secret, not to go further, but to attenuate the tension a bit, just enough to take the edge off. And then as soon as we come, we go and make ourselves feel guilty-so as to be forgiven; or to forget, to bury it until the next time.

feminism, writing

Hélène Cixous

To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.

feminism, writing

Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.

feminism, writing

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

feminism, writing

public display and operatic suffering—an in-your-face owning of one’s vulnerability and fucked-upness to the point of embarrassing and offending tight-asses is a powerful feminist strategy. Writing is tough work, I don’t see how anyone can really write from a position of weakness. Sometimes I may start out in that position, but the act of commandeering words flips me into a position of power.

feminism, writing

Hélène Cixous

–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 important.But no it precisely its not being important that is so important.

feminism, writing

Hélène Cixous

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 writing is at once too high, too great for you, it’s reserved for the great-that is for “great men”; and it’s “silly.”Besides, you’ve written a little, but in secret. And it wasn’t good, because it was in secret, and because you punished yourself for writing, because you didn’t go all the way, or because you wrote, irresistibly, as when we would masturbate in secret, not to go further, but to attenuate the tension a bit, just enough to take the edge off. And then as soon as we come, we go and make ourselves feel guilty-so as to be forgiven; or to forget, to bury it until the next time.

feminism, writing

Hélène Cixous

To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.

feminism, writing

Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.

feminism, writing

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

feminism, writing