One Is Not Born a Woman Quotes

“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

“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