6 Quotes & Sayings By Luce Irigaray

Luce Irigaray (born Luce Evelyn Gilman; April 10, 1928) is a French feminist philosopher, cultural theorist, and cultural critic. She is known for her work Le deuxième sexe (1974), Speculum of the Other Woman (1977), and This Sex Which Is Not One (1985). Irigaray's work has often focused on the question of sexual difference and on writing, particularly on the relationship between sex and gender. Irigaray has been called "the most important feminist thinker of the late 20th century".

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Your body expresses yesterday in what it wants today. If you think: yesterday I was, tomorrow I shall be, you are thinking: I have died a little. Be what you are becoming, without clinging to what you might have been, what you might yet be. Never settle. Leave definitiveness to the undecided; we don't need it. Luce Irigaray
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The ultimate reality from which the path of this becoming could start off again will no longer rest on a ground of 'causa sui.' in any case the sense of a God who would alone be capable of giving an account of self. It is rather from the human and from what the human most irreducibly is that it is a question of starting off again. From the human as it objectively is before it starts to construct a language and a thinking which help to distance it from its beginning, from its prematureness without thinking it in the totality of its being. Luce Irigaray
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Why only one song, one speech, one text at a time?" - "When Our Lips Speak Together Luce Irigaray
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Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension, before every utterance on earth, there is a cloud, an almost immobile air. The plants already breathe, while we still ask ourselves how to speak to each other, without taking breath away from them. Luce Irigaray
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The human in what it is objectively ever since its beginning is two, two who are different. Each part of what constitutes the unity of the human species corresponds to a proper being and a proper Being, to an identity of one's own. In order to carry out the destiny of humanity, the man-human and the woman-human each have to fulfill what they are and at the same time realize the unity that they constitute. Luce Irigaray