Monique Wittig Quotes

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

Monique Wittig
Despite all the evils they wished to crush me with
I remain as steady as the three-legged cauldron.

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

Monique Wittig
The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual.

Monique Wittig
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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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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Men are not born with a faculty for the universal and... women are not reduced at birth to the particular. The universal has been, and is continually, at every moment, appropriated by men. It does not happen by magic, it must be done. It is an act, a criminal act, perpetrated by one class against another. It is an act carried out at the level of concepts, philosophy, politics.

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

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

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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
They say that there is no reality before it has been given shape by words rules regulations. They say that in what concerns them everything has to be remade starting from basic principles. They say that in the first place the vocabulary of every language is to be examined, modified, turned upside down, that every word must be screened.

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