Cerebral cortex

“The future must no longer be determined by the past. I do not deny that the effects of the past are still upon us. But I refuse to strengthen them by repeating them, to confer on them an irremovability the equivalent of destiny, to confuse the biological and the cultural. Anticipation is imperative.”

“I am the finite that wants its infinite. Love infinites me.”

“Because she arrives, vibrant, over and over again; we are at the beginning of a new history, or rather a process of becoming in which several histories intersect with one another. As a subject for history, woman always occurs simultaneously in several places. (In woman, personal history blends together with the history of all women, as well as national and world history.) I wished that woman would write and proclaim this unique empire so that other women, other unacknowledged sovereigns, might exclaim: I, too, overflow; my desires have invented new desires, my body knows unheard of song. Time and again, I, too, have felt so full of luminous torrents I could burst – burst with forms much more beautiful than those which are put up in frames and sold for a stinking fortune.”

“She was the perfect combination of hard and soft, with a face that said, ‘I am fierce enough to snap you in half, but I will be merciful enough to give you a chance to turn around and walk away.’ And did I walk away? Of course not.”

“Poetry is an incessant amorous search under the sign of love for a remembered time at the pitch-dark fringes of evening when we gathered together to bless and believe.”

“It is important to recognize that their patterns concretized long before you entered their life. Maybe these patterns were dormant or didn’t find immediate expression but you aren’t the origin in most cases. This is important when you provide yourself the closure you deserve. Coming out of abusive relationships, if you feel like filling up the moments of innate, nutritive silence — which is the bridge to closure — with the addictive cacophony of going back for one more conversation/debate/disagreement, you allow them power they don’t deserve but crave and extort regularly.”

Ah, but we die to each other daily

“sometimes the whole world of women seems a landscape of red blood things that need healing,”