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One Is Not Born a Woman QUOTES

One Is Not Born a Woman QUOTES

1 " Lesbian is the only concept I know of which is beyond the categories of sex (woman and man), because the designated subject (lesbian) is not a woman, either economically, or politically, or ideologically. For what makes a woman is a specific relationship to a man, a relationship which we have previously called servitude, a relation which lesbians escape by refusing to become or stay heterosexual. "

― Monique Wittig , One Is Not Born a Woman

2 " This is impossible and one feature of lesbian oppression consists precisely of making women out of reach for us since women belong to men. "

― Monique Wittig , One Is Not Born a Woman