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

— Monique Wittig The Straight Mind (1992)

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But remember. Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent.

Les Guérillères (1969)

Today, together, let us repeat as our slogan that all trace of violence must disappear from this earth, then the sun will be honey-colored and music good to hear.

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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)

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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")

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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")

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