Quote of the day
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
Hélène Cixous
Born: June 5, 1937 (age 89)
Bio: Hélène Cixous is a professor, Algerian/French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician.
Known for:
- The book of Promethea (1991)
- The Newly Born Woman (Theory & History of Literature (1986)
- Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing (1993)
- Coming to writing and other essays (1991)
- The Third Body (1999)








