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.

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go.

The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

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

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

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.

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.

They say that oppression engenders hate. They are heard on all sides crying hate hate.

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

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.

Remember. Or, failing that, invent.

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.

Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible

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