Canadian academic Clive Thompson has referred to Causse as a "writer of
radical lesbian texts."[6] In her works, she is critical of
heterosexuality, stating that "as long as a woman wishes to please a man, she is inauthentic... She does not have the integrity, the un-corruptibility that comes with not wishing to please."[7]
Causse was also critical of both the
Women's Movement and of the concept of a
homosexual movement, stating, "I am not a feminist, I am not a homosexual, I am a radical lesbian." She believed that "the women's movement is sustained by lesbians in every country; it is a lesbian movement, profoundly lesbian."[8] She was also critical of the influence of
patriarchy on lesbians, claiming that lesbians were "phallicized" in the 1980s by the male homosexual movement.[9]
In her last years, she lived in the southwest of France.[10] Causse chose to end her life on her 74th birthday, in association with
Dignitas, an
assisted suicide group in
Switzerland.[11][12]
Although Causse had no terminal illness, she had several severe diseases.[which?]
Her
euthanasia was filmed and then shown on Swiss TV.
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