"It is quite possible for a work of……" — Monique Wittig
"It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch."
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10 Quotes by Monique Wittig
Monique Wittig has 10 quotes on this site.
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One is a writer, or one is not.
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Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change…
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Remember. Or, failing that, invent.
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For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that…
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The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual.
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Today, together, let us repeat as our slogan that all trace of violence must disappear from this earth, then the…
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A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What…
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There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed…
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... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.
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More Epoch Quotes
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Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to…
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A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love…
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In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard…
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All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether…
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Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.
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At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world…
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In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even…
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has…
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Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out…
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The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the…
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Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a…
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In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters…
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