Hélène Cixous

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June 05, 1937 in Oran, Algeria

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female

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Women & Gender Studies, Social Sciences, Literature & Fiction

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Hélène Cixous is a Jewish-French, Algerian-born feminist well-known as one of the founders of poststructuralist feminist theory along with Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva. She is now a professor of English Literature at University of Paris VIII and chairs the Centre de Recherches en Etudes Féminines which she founded in 1974.

She has published numerous essays, playwrights, novels, poems and literary criticism. Her academic works concern subjects of feminism, the human body, history, death and theatre.

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Books by Hélène Cixous

Average rating: 4.23 · 949 ratings · 94 reviews · 62 distinct works

	Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing by Hélène Cixous, Susan Sellers (Goodreads Author) 4.34 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Coming to Writing and Other Essays by Hélène Cixous, Susan Rubin Suleiman 4.35 avg rating — 99 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Newly Born Woman by Hélène Cixous, Catherine Clément, Helene Cixous 4.09 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1975 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Laugh of the Medusa 4.27 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Book of Promethea by Hélène Cixous, Betsy Wing (Translator), Helene Cixous 4.25 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Veils by Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida, Geoffrey Bennington (Translator) 4.32 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Stigmata: Escaping Texts 4.29 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Hélène Cixous, Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing by Hélène Cixous, Eric Prenowitz (Translator) 4.42 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Reading with Clarice Lispector by Hélène Cixous, Verena A. Conley (Translator), Helene Cixous 4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Dream I Tell You by Hélène Cixous, Beverley Bie Brahic (Translator), Edinburgh University Edinburgh University Press 3.57 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Hélène Cixous

“We should write as we dream; we should even try and write, we should all do it for ourselves, it’s very healthy, because it’s the only place where we never lie. At night we don’t lie. Now if we think that our whole lives are built on lying-they are strange buildings-we should try and write as our dreams teach us; shamelessly, fearlessly, and by facing what is inside very human being-sheer violence, disgust, terror, shit, invention, poetry. In our dreams we are criminals; we kill, and we kill with a lot of enjoyment. But we are also the happiest people on earth; we make love as we never make love in life.”
― Hélène Cixous

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“Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.”
― Hélène Cixous

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“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? You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.”
― Hélène Cixous

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