Wittig, Monique

"The margin offers perspective unavailable from the center."

"To create is to assert one's existence against erasure."

"Literature bears witness to what power would erase."

"Courage is speaking what everyone knows but no one says."

"The future is written by those who dare to write it."

"Language shapes not only thought but being itself."

"Art is the practice ground for imagining freedom."

"To understand systems is to understand one's own position."

"Writing creates space for what has been denied."

"The personal story is the strongest challenge to ideology."

"Imagination precedes all liberation."

"One cannot wait for permission to speak truth."

"The creative act refuses the limitations imposed upon us."

"To be silenced is to be rendered non-existent."

"Literature is the practice of freedom through language."

"The lesbian, by definition, rejects the male definition of woman."

"Writing is an act of resistance against the order that seeks to silence us."

"To name oneself is to begin the process of liberation."

"Language shapes reality; we must reshape language to reshape our world."

"The straight mind is the mind of domination."

"One is not born, but rather becomes what society demands."

"Heterosexuality is a political regime, not a natural state."

"We must refuse the categories that bind us."

"The personal is political, and the political is personal."

"To write as a woman is to claim space in a masculine world."

"Language is a tool of oppression until we reclaim it as our own."

"The act of speaking truth is revolutionary."

"We are not defined by what men have said we are."

"The struggle for freedom begins with the refusal to accept imposed identities."

"Literature can be an instrument of transformation."