“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 is a French philosopher born on May 3, 1930. She is known for her influential work in feminist philosophy, particularly her analysis of gender, language, and culture, which has had a profound impact on post-structuralist and feminist philosophy. more
“Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.”
“Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.”
“I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother.”