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

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.

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

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

Remember. Or, failing that, invent.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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