Everyone tries not to be

“What this implies is that the female body is not to remain the object of men’s discourse or their various arts but it is to become the object of a female subjectivity experiencing and identifying itself. Such research attempts to suggest to women a morpho-logic that is appropriate to their bodies. It’s aimed at the male subject, too, inviting him to redefine himself as a body with a view to exchanges between sexed subjects.” Luce Irigaray, “Writing”