Says & Cannot Say

I am neither one of those who accuse her nor one of those who see her as blameless.

I think she is a woman who had the audacity and the courage to get burnt by what she says and what she cannot say, and that she makes communicable the truth of desire.

- Kirsteva on Simone de Beauvoir in her 2007 lecture, "The Reinvention of the Couple"

self-portrait with self