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… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch. — Monique Wittig Copy Share
“The women say that they could not eat hare veal or fowl, they say that they could not eat animals, but man, yes, they… — Monique Wittig Copy Share
The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language. — Monique Wittig Copy Share
They say that oppression engenders hate. They are heard on all sides crying hate hate. — Monique Wittig Copy Share
The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes… — Monique Wittig Copy Share
Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it. — Monique Wittig Copy Share
“Despite all the evils they wished to crush me with/ I remain as steady as the three-legged cauldron.” — Monique Wittig Copy Share
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… — Monique Wittig Copy Share
“There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you… — Monique Wittig Copy Share
For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not… — Monique Wittig Copy Share
I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go. — Monique Wittig Copy Share
It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary. The contrary would be to say that sex creates oppression, or to say that… — Monique Wittig Copy Share
