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" ...for Cixous, writing from the imaginary implies the invention of “other I’s,” the poet is more open to otherness. She follows the post-revolutionary myth of the artist as subversive and effeminate. Poetry, like other arts, questions and transforms ideology. … This is not to say that to create, one must be homosexual, but that there is no invention without other I’s, no poetry, no fiction without that of a certain homosexuality, therefore of bisexuality. "

, Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine


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 quote : ...for Cixous, writing from the imaginary implies the invention of “other I’s,” the poet is more open to otherness. She follows the post-revolutionary myth of the artist as subversive and effeminate. Poetry, like other arts, questions and transforms ideology. … This is not to say that to create, one must be homosexual, but that there is no invention without other I’s, no poetry, no fiction without that of a certain homosexuality, therefore of bisexuality.