Wittig, Monique

Philosopher-Writer French 1935 – 2003

Critiqued heterosexuality and developed lesbian philosophy.

379 quotes

"Art embodies resistance."
Art
"We are more than we are told."
Strength
"Women's stories matter."
Literature
"The future is ours to imagine."
Hope
"Language must be liberated."
Freedom
"Women are the measure."
Wisdom
"Power flows through discourse."
Power
"We choose our identity."
Philosophy
"Women's revolution is necessary."
Justice
"Change begins with consciousness."
Motivation
"Literature is liberation."
Literature
"The lesbian body is a text to be read and rewritten constantly."
Literature
"Language is a tool of oppression when wielded by those in power."
"To write is to resist the categories imposed upon us."
Creativity
"The personal is political, and the political is personal."
Politics
"Heterosexuality is not a natural state but a political institution."
Politics
"Women must refuse the role society has written for them."
Freedom
"Identity is constructed through language and can be deconstructed."
Philosophy
"The dominant group naturalizes its position through discourse."
Power
"To escape oppression, one must first name it."
Justice
"Fiction is a weapon against the colonization of the mind."
Literature
"The body is a political battleground."
Philosophy
"Gender is a performance, not a destiny."
Philosophy
"Words have the power to create reality or deny it."
Truth
"Imagination is the first step toward liberation."
Imagination
"The universal subject is a myth designed to exclude."
Justice
"Writing oneself into existence is an act of rebellion."
Creativity
"Silence is complicity with the dominant order."
Courage
"The categories we inherit are prisons we must escape."
Freedom
"Literature must become a tool of consciousness-raising."
Literature