Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.
Monique WittigToday, 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.
Monique WittigNot only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible
Monique WittigA 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 Wittig