“The women say that they could not eat hare veal or fowl, they say that they could not eat animals, but man, yes, they may. He says to them throwing his head back with pride, poor wretches of women, if… — 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 Image
“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 Image
The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
They say that oppression engenders hate. They are heard on all sides crying hate hate. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
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 Image
Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
“Despite all the evils they wished to crush me with/ I remain as steady as the three-legged cauldron.” — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
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 Image
