Luce Irigaray - becoming subject

"If we continue to speak the same language, we are going to reproduce the same story. Relaunch the same stories. Don't you think so?

Listen: around us, the men and the women, we would say it is the same. Same discussions, same disagreements, same shows. Same difficulties, impossibilities to join one another. Same... Same...

Always the same.

If we continue to speak of the same, if we speak as people have spoken for centuries, as we have been taught to speak, we are going to miss ourselves.

Again... "

Luce Irigaray

from Ce sexe qui n'en est pas un: Quand nos lèvres se parlent, 1977 (translation from French by M. Tjader)