Quotes About Wittig

#1. Wittig appears to take issue with genitally organized sexuality per se and to call for an alternative economy of pleasures which would both contest the construction of female subjectivity marked by women's supposedly distinctive reproductive function.

Judith Butler

#2. Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.

Monique Wittig

#3. They say that oppression engenders hate. They are heard on all sides crying hate hate.

Monique Wittig

#4. Does that mean you're prepared to deal with whatever turns up? People aren't sometimes. When they learn the real truth, they're all of a sudden content to live with a lie.

Susan Wittig Albert

#5. Gratitude is the richest, most joyful feeling humans are privileged to experience.

Susan Wittig Albert

#6. 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.

Monique Wittig

#7. The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation.

Susan Wittig Albert

#8. 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.

Monique Wittig

#9. 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.

Monique Wittig

#10. If I'd known how the week was going to turn out I would have sent it back first thing Monday and asked for a refund.

Susan Wittig Albert

#11. There is nothing like a grocery list to remind us how human we are.

Susan Wittig Albert

#12. 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.

Monique Wittig

#13. 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.

Monique Wittig

#14. One is a writer, or one is not.

Monique Wittig

#15. One person's weed is another person's wildflower.

Susan Wittig Albert

#16. Despite all the evils they wished to crush me with/
I remain as steady as the three-legged cauldron.

Monique Wittig

#17. It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

Monique Wittig

#18. Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared with others, these emotions can be powerfully uniting, as we see that we are not alone, and realize that others weep with us.

Susan Wittig Albert

#19. There is no 'feminine writing' ... and one makes a mistake is using and giving currency to this expression.

Monique Wittig

#20. Our stories arise from our hearts and our souls. In this sense, telling our stories becomes a sacred gesture, opening a clear way to that deep, ecstatic center where we are most uniquely our selves, individual and unique, and yet are ourselves, joined together at the heart.

Susan Wittig Albert

#21. The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

Monique Wittig

#22. I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.

Monique Wittig

#23. The bearers of fables are very welcome.

Monique Wittig

#24. The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual.

Monique Wittig

#25. I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.

Monique Wittig

#26. The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

Monique Wittig

#27. I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go.

Monique Wittig

#28. Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible

Monique Wittig

#29. We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them.

Susan Wittig Albert

#30. Never ask, never get," the dog replied. "Never try, never taste. Never taste, never enjoy.

Susan Wittig Albert

#31. Music keeps time and defies time, simultaneously.

Susan Wittig Albert

#32. 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.

Monique Wittig