A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What the analysis accomplishes on the level of ideas, practice makes actual at the level of facts: by its very existence, lesbian society destroys the artificial (social) fact constituting women as a 'natural group.' A lesbian society pragmatically reveals that the division from men of which women have been the object is a political one . . .
Monique Wittigthere is no 'feminine writing' ... and one makes a mistake is using and giving currency to this expression.
Monique WittigNot only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible
Monique WittigThe basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.
Monique Wittig