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Quotes from The Straight Mind — Monique Wittig

1935–2003 France

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The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language. ("On the Social Contract" 1989)

The Straight Mind (1992)

The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual. (from "The Category of Sex" 1982)

The Straight Mind (1992)

For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary. ("The Category of Sex")

The Straight Mind (1992)

There is no possible fight for someone deprived of an identity, no internal motivation for fighting, since, although I can fight only with others, first I fight for myself. ("One Is Not Born a Woman")

The Straight Mind (1992)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Monique Wittig (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.