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

— Hélène Cixous

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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.

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

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

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