“You have 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 next time. Write. Let no one hold you back.”

- Helene Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa