Wittig, Monique

"To think differently, one must first imagine differently."

"The oppressor's language contains the seeds of our subjugation."

"Authenticity is a fiction we must learn to see through."

"The mind that refuses categorization is dangerous to power."

"Transformation begins with the refusal to accept as natural what is political."

"Art is not decoration but a form of knowledge."

"The straight mind is the mind of oppression itself."

"Women's liberation requires the destruction of heterosexuality as an institution."

"To write is to claim a space that has been denied."

"Language shapes consciousness more than consciousness shapes language."

"The personal narrative is a political act."

"Difference is not deficiency; it is the basis of liberation."

"The dominant ideology makes itself invisible through naturalization."

"Fiction allows us to inhabit worlds not yet real."

"Resistance begins with the refusal of imposed categories."

"The body knows what society forbids."

"To be a woman is to be a work in progress, not a completed fact."

"Meaning is not given; it is constructed through struggle."

"The lesbian is a text written by desire, not by duty."

"Freedom requires the dismantling of all totalizing systems."

"The self is not a possession but a project."

"Literature teaches us that another world is possible."

"The mind's liberation is inseparable from the body's freedom."

"To refuse is to begin to exist."

"The universal is always particular in disguise."

"Writing is an act of self-creation and world-creation."

"Oppression works by making us believe our chains are ornaments."

"The future belongs to those who can imagine it first."

"Identity politics is a response to the denial of identity by the powerful."

"Language is the first site of liberation or oppression."