Monique Wittig

Remember. Or, failing that, invent.

— Monique Wittig

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

— Monique Wittig

“The women say that they could not eat hare veal or fowl, they say that they could not eat animals, but man,…

— Monique Wittig

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

— Monique Wittig

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

— Monique Wittig

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

— Monique Wittig

The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that…

— Monique Wittig

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

— Monique Wittig

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

— Monique Wittig

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

— Monique Wittig

Today, together, let us repeat as our slogan that all trace of violence must disappear from this earth, then the sun will…

— Monique Wittig

“There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You…

— Monique Wittig

For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex…

— Monique Wittig

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

— Monique Wittig

It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary. The contrary would be to say that sex creates oppression, or to…

— Monique Wittig

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

— Monique Wittig

“The ‘I’ [Je] who writes is alien to her own writing at every word because this ‘I’ uses a language that is…

— Monique Wittig

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

— Monique Wittig

A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What the analysis…

— Monique Wittig

Frankly, [the definition of woman] is a problem that the lesbians do not have because of a change of perspective. 'Woman' has…

— Monique Wittig

The bearers of fables are very welcome.

— Monique Wittig

One is a writer, or one is not.

— Monique Wittig

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

— Monique Wittig

“One only has to read interviews with outstanding women to hear them apologizing”

— Monique Wittig

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.

— Monique Wittig