At the beginning of May I attended a talk at the Berlin Volksbühne by iconic feminist writer Hélène Cixous. It was fascinating to see how this tiny woman in her eighties filled the stage and held the undivided attention of the audience just by speaking, by the sheer energy of her thinking. Two quotes stayed with me in particular and one of them involves breathing:
“The past must no longer determine the future.”
“We inspire ourselves and expire without losing the breath.”