The Body & Writing
My body was before the word. The reality of being a woman made me belong to silence, unacquainted with myself, unable to describe-inscribe my being in the Universe where man is the measure of all things. He set the norms, the terms of our human relations and has designed the frontiers to the flight of my thought.
The body restricted me within its properties, heightened by the dominion of the material. The condition: to be bonded to habit and custom, to become the embodiment of tradition. Absolute authority practiced in woman its power and rule. She was left in charge of disseminating its legacy using codes alien to her reality. She belongs to History (1).
Now I want to train the voix sauvage, the voice that cries out to claim the space that has been left void. A voice in search of signs that can fill the space from which woman has sprung voiceless (2). She cannot regain the past or control her present, she has though, a right to establish her space toward the future.
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