
Top 19 Quotes About Irigaray
#1. Though auditing a class at the Sorbonne taught by Luce Irigaray and titled The Mother-Daughter Relationship: The Darkest of Dark Continents, Claire had followed maternal example by setting out guest towels.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#2. Irigaray remarks in such a vein that "the masquerade... is what women do... in order to participate in man's desire, but at the cost of giving up their own".
Judith Butler
#3. Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.
Luce Irigaray
#5. 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.
Luce Irigaray
#7. Enterprises of different ownerships should all enjoy fair opportunities and conditions to compete in the market.
Li Keqiang
#8. It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.
Eric Cantor
#9. 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.
Luce Irigaray
#10. Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.
Luce Irigaray
#11. Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.
Luce Irigaray
#12. 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.
Luce Irigaray
#13. The challenge is to focus on the work, not on the fear that comes from doing the work.
Seth Godin
#14. 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.
Luce Irigaray
#15. 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.
Luce Irigaray
#16. 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.
Luce Irigaray
#17. If only your ears were not so formless, so clogged with meaning(s), that they are closed to what does not in some way echo the already heard" (p. 113, The Sex Which is Not One)
Irigaray, Luce
#18. People ask if I can get it up in the morning. I tell them are you kidding I'm envious of a stiff wind.
Rodney Dangerfield
#19. Why only one song, one speech, one text at a time?" - "When Our Lips Speak Together
Luce Irigaray
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