“Una palabra no doma el cuerpo. Ninguna palabra doma la pena. Ninguna palabra la espanta. Ninguna palabra la logra decir de verdad.”
― Los llanos
― Los llanos
“My body needs it—the hot baths, the care, the soft water, the perfume, the warmth. I take on the colors of the flowers, the bloom, the delicacy. It becomes me.”
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“I cannot differentiate between tears and music' (Nietzsche). Whoever is not immediately struck by the profundity of this statement has not lived for a minute in the intimacy of music. I know no other music than that of tears. Born out of the loss of paradise, music gives birth to the symbols of this loss: tears.”
― Tears and Saints
― Tears and Saints
“The body has been made so problematic for women that it has often seemed easier to shrug it off and travel as a disembodied spirit.”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“Que naîtrait-il de mon désir? Le corps unique et inconnu de notre silence: il faut trouver cette langue sans mots et sans limites qui nous perpétuera sans erreur et sans affaiblissement.”
― The Third Body
― The Third Body
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