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I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.
Monique Wittig
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Monique Wittig
Age: 67 †
Born: 1935
Born: July 13
Died: 2003
Died: January 3
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They say that oppression engenders hate. They are heard on all sides crying hate hate.
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I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go.
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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.
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Remember. Or, failing that, invent.
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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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... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.
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