Helene Cixous
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And why don't you write? Write! Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it. I know why you haven't written. (And why I didn't write before the age of twenty-seven.) Because writing is at once too high, too great for you, it's reserved for the great-that is for "great men"; and it's "silly." Besides, you've written a little, but in secret. And it wasn't good, because it was in secret, and because you punished yourself for writing, because you didn't go all the way, or because you wrote, irresistibly, as when we would masturbate in secret, not to go further, but to attenuate the tension a bit, just enough to take the edge off. And then as soon as we come, we go and make ourselves feel guilty-so as to be forgiven; or to forget, to bury it until the next time.
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| Answer | Clues |
|---|---|
| SEX | 452 clues |
| WRITING | 74 clues |
| POLITICS | 32 clues |
| PHILOSOPHY | 31 clues |
| PSYCHOANALYSIS | 16 clues |
| FEMINISM | 10 clues |
| FAE | 5 clues |
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- Helene's competitor 62.50%
- Here, to Helene 44.44%
- Hélène, for one 44.44%
- Hélène's friend 42.86%
- House, to Helene 42.86%
- ___ Hélène 42.11%
- Husband, to Helene 40.00%
- Offenbach's "___ Helene." 38.71%
- Hélène or Geneviève 37.50%
- Head, to Hélène 37.04%
- Counterpart of Helene or Helena 36.36%
- Île ___-Hélène 36.36%
- Thine, to Hélène 35.71%
- Sainte-Hélène, for one 35.29%
- Ile ___-Hélène 34.78%
- Mother of Eos and Helene 32.43%
- Ile ___-Hélène (island east of Montreal) 29.79%
- Magazine co-founded in 1945 by Hélène Gordon Lazareff 18.18%
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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N
Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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