From the Author

Cixous on Her Literary and Emotional Evolution

I think that what is inscribed in what I have written is a certain story, a certain history, which is mine and, I believe, that of every woman. I think it is quite exemplary. Besides, it is truly a history insofar as it has a development in time, because I absolutely do believe in experience. I think we traverse in time moments which, little by little, allow us to advance and to learn to live. One does not know how to live; one learns to live.

Cixous, Hélène. Excerpt from Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine, p. 161. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.