For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is … - Monique Wittig

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The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.

Monique Wittig

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.

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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.

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Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.

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

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

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The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

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