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

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.

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

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

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 . . .

The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.

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