Wittig, Monique

"The straight world fears what it cannot control or categorize."

"To become visible is to become dangerous."

"The text is a space where consciousness can be remade."

"Solidarity is not pity but the refusal of hierarchies."

"The personal becomes political the moment it is spoken aloud."

"Art is the proof that another reality exists."

"Woman is not born; she is made through repetitive acts."

"Freedom is not given; it must be taken and remade constantly."

"The role of the writer is to make the invisible visible."

"Every category contains the seeds of its own undoing."

"Desire is the first language of liberation."

"To think outside the system, one must first recognize it as a system."

"The lesbian exists outside the economy of heterosexuality."

"Writing is a form of thinking that the world does not yet know how to silence."

"The patriarchy fears the woman who knows her own power."

"Consciousness is the weapon of the oppressed."

"To narrate is to claim authority over one's own existence."

"The straight mind cannot think the lesbian existence."

"Liberation is not a destination but a continuous refusal."

"Language contains both our bondage and our possible freedom."

"The personal experience of oppression is universal knowledge."

"Fiction is the form that truth takes when reality becomes intolerable."

"To be excluded is to be placed outside the realm of the real."

"The revolution begins in language and imagination."

"Woman's refusal to be written by patriarchy is her first freedom."

"Knowledge is power, but power conceals itself as knowledge."

"The text is a space where the impossible becomes possible."

"To resist is to become real."

"The dominant class naturalizes its dominance through narrative."

"Art is the proof that liberation is not merely a dream."