it is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch. ("The Trojan Horse"… — Monique Wittig

..."woman" has meaning only in heterosexual systems of thought and heterosexual economic systems. Lesbians are not women. (from "The Straight Mind" 1980, p. 32)

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. ("The Category of Sex")

there is no 'feminine writing' ... and one makes a mistake is using and giving currency to this expression. ("The Point of View: Universal or Particular?" 1980)