One is a writer, or one is not.

- Monique Wittig

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

- Monique Wittig

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…

- Monique Wittig

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

- 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 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 be honey-colored and music …

- Monique Wittig

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.

- Monique Wittig

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

- Monique Wittig