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Hélène Cixous
“I beg you, eat me up. Want me down to the marrow.”
Hélène Cixous

“Don't kiss me if you're afraid of thunder. My life is a storm.”
Anita Krizzan

Julio Cortázar
“Lo que mucha gente llama amar consiste en elegir una mujer y casarse con ella. La eligen, te lo juro, los he visto. Como si se pudiera elegir en el amor, como si no fuera un rayo que te parte los huesos y te deja estaqueado en la mitad del patio. Vos dirás que la eligen porque-la-aman, yo creo que es al vesre. A Beatriz no se la elige, a Julieta no se la elige. Vos no elegís la lluvia que te va a calar hasta los huesos cuando salís de un concierto.”
Julio Cortázar, Rayuela

Sheila Heti
“There is something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children. There is something at-loose-ends feeling about such a woman. What is she going to do instead? What sort of trouble will she make?”
Sheila Heti, Motherhood

Deborah Levy
“She was not a poet. She was a poem.”
Deborah Levy, Swimming Home

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