The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

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.

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) of oppression is to be found in sex itself, in a natural division of the sexes preexisting (or outside of) society.

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 good to hear.

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

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