Wittig, Monique

"One is not born a woman, one becomes a woman."

"The category 'woman' is a political category."

"Language is power."

"To write as a lesbian is to write as a woman."

"The straight mind cannot conceive of a culture, a history belonging to women."

"Heterosexuality is a political regime."

"We must destroy the categories of sex and gender."

"Women are an oppressed class."

"The personal is political."

"Freedom is not given, it is taken."

"Language shapes reality and thought."

"Writing is resistance."

"Identity is constructed, not inherent."

"Art is a form of liberation."

"The body is political."

"Change comes through collective action."

"We must imagine ourselves anew."

"Words are weapons and tools."

"Literature can transform consciousness."

"Heterosexuality is mandatory for women."

"Break the chains of patriarchal language."

"Women must write their own history."

"Power structures are maintained through language."

"Oppression is internalized through culture."

"The lesbian is not a woman."

"Sisterhood is solidarity."

"We are the subjects of our own stories."

"Consciousness is the first step to freedom."

"Art creates new possibilities."

"History must be reclaimed by the oppressed."