Literary Birthday – 13 July – Monique Wittig

Monique Wittig was born 13 July 1935, and died 3 January 2003.

Five Quotes

1. It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.
2. I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.
3. A text by a minority writer is effective only if it succeeds in making the minority point of view universal.
4. One is a writer, or one is not.
5. The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

Monique Wittig was a French author and feminist theorist. Her second novel, Les Guerilleres was a landmark in lesbian feminism.

Source for Image

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Succession littéraire de Monique Wittig, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

by Amanda Patterson

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