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.

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

One is a writer, or one is not.

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

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

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 heterosexual systems of thought and heterosexual, economic systems. Lesbians are not women.

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.