Occupation: Author Birth: July 13, 1935 Death: January 3, 2003
Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible.
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..
It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary. The contrary would be to say that sex creates oppression, or to say that the cause (origin) o….
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 ….
The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft..
Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it..
A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What the analysis accomplishes on the ….
The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual..
One is a writer, or one is not..
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 continuall….
The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language..
I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go..
It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch..
The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it consti….
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 have lost all rec….
I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession..
Frankly, [the definition of woman] is a problem that the lesbians do not have because of a change of perspective. 'Woman' has meaning only in heteros….
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….
... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page..
there is no 'feminine writing' ... and one makes a mistake is using and giving currency to this expression..
The bearers of fables are very welcome..