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Hélène Cixous Quotes

born 1937 Algeria

Hélène Cixous (/sɪkˈsuː/; French: [siksu]; born 5 June 1937) in Oran is a French, Algerian writer, playwright and literary critic.

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I never thought I was at home [in Algeria], nor that Algeria was my country, nor that I was French.

My own writing was born in Algeria out of a lost country of the dead father and the foreign mother.

Woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned into the uncanny stranger on display.

I shall speak about women’s writing about what it will do.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hélène Cixous (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.