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Monique Wittig Biography

Monique Wittig (French: [vitig]; July 13, 1935 – January 3, 2003) was a French author and feminist theorist who wrote about overcoming socially enforced gender roles and who coined the phrase "heterosexual contract". She published her first novel, L'Opoponax, in 1964. Her second novel, Les Guérillères (1969), was a landmark in lesbian feminism.

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men are not born with a faculty for the universal and. . . women are not reduced at birth to the particular. The universal has been, and is continually, at every moment, appropriated by men. It does not happen by magic, it must be done. It is an act, a criminal act, perpetrated by one class against another. It is an act carried out at the level of concepts, philosophy, politics.

Class, Men, Moment, Philosophy, Reduced, Women

One is a writer, or one is not.

Writer

The bearers of fables are very welcome.

Bearers, Fables, Myth, Welcome

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.

Names, Possession, Pronounce, Refuse

There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have lost all recollection of it, remember. . . You say there are no words to describe this time, you say it does not exist. But remember. Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent.

Invent, Laughter, Make, Recollection, Remember You, Time

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.

Contrary, Creates, Oppresses, Oppression, Sex

It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary. The contrary would be to say that sex creates oppression, or to say that the cause (origin) of oppression is to be found in sex itself, in a natural division of the sexes preexisting (or outside of) society.

Contrary, Creates, Division, Found, Sex, Would Be

They say that there is no reality before it has been given shape by words rules regulations. They say that in what concerns them everything has to be remade starting from basic principles. They say that in the first place the vocabulary of every language is to be examined, modified, turned upside down, that every word must be screened.

Place, Principles, Reality, Turned, Vocabulary, Word

. . . I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.

Blank, Fire, Nothing, Page, Pages, Teeth

Frankly, [the definition of woman] is a problem that the lesbians do not have because of a change of perspective. 'Woman' has meaning only in heterosexual systems of thought and heterosexual, economic systems. Lesbians are not women.

Definitions, Heterosexual, Perspective, Problem, Women

The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual.

Category, Found, Political, Sex, Society

Remember. Or, failing that, invent.

Failing, Invent, Remember

The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.

Class, Constitutes, Contradictions, Opposed, Struggle, Two

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

Dictionary, Draft, Language, Rough, Rough Drafts

there is no 'feminine writing'. . . and one makes a mistake is using and giving currency to this expression.

Currency, Expression, Mistake, Using, Writing