Luce Irigaray Quotes

#1. Why only one song, one speech, one text at a time?" - "When Our Lips Speak Together

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#2. Nature is a universal that is shareable by all, males and females, men and women, and can thus be of use in mediating between all. The same does not apply for already constructed worlds and cultures. They are neither universal nor easily shareable.

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#3. I love to you" is more unusual than "I love you," but respects the two more: I love to who you are, to what you do, without reducing you to an object of my love.

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#4. Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability to welcome the other as different.

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#5. Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.

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#6. Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.

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#7. Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.

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#8. Each sex has a relation to madness. Every desire has a relation to madness. But it would seem that one desire has been taken as wisdom, moderation, truth, leaving to the other sex the weight of a madness that cannot be acknowledged or accommodated.

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#9. Every desire has a relation to madness.

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#10. Letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.

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#11. Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.

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