Top 20 Monique Wittig Quotes
#1. Frankly, [the definition of woman] is a problem that the lesbians do not have because of a change of perspective. 'Woman' has meaning only in heterosexual systems of thought and heterosexual, economic systems. Lesbians are not women.
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#2. Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible
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#3. I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go.
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#4. The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.
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#5. I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.
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#6. The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual.
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#8. I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.
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#10. There is no 'feminine writing' ... and one makes a mistake is using and giving currency to this expression.
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#11. They say that oppression engenders hate. They are heard on all sides crying hate hate.
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#12. For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary.
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#13. Today, together, let us repeat as our slogan that all trace of violence must disappear from this earth, then the sun will be honey-colored and music good to hear.
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#14. The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.
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#15. Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.
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#16. The 'I' [Je] who writes is alien to her own writing at every word because this 'I' uses a language that is alien to her; this 'I' [Je] experiences what is alien to her since this 'I' [Je] cannot be un ecrivain. J/e poses the ideological and historical question of feminine subjects.
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#17. It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary. The contrary would be to say that sex creates oppression, or to say that the cause (origin) of oppression is to be found in sex itself, in a natural division of the sexes preexisting (or outside of) society.
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#19. Despite all the evils they wished to crush me with/
I remain as steady as the three-legged cauldron.
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#20. It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.
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