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

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.

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 remade starting from basic principles. They say that in the first place the vocabulary of every language is to be examined, modified, turned upside down, that every word must be screened.

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

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

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

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 continually, at every moment, appropriated by men. It does not happen by magic, it must be done. It is an act, a criminal act, perpetrated by one class against another. It is an act carried out at the level of concepts, philosophy, politics.