"Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible"

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Source : Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)

Monique Wittig

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“There has been 32 isms since the advent of cubism, yet after all there are essentially the same two old strings, the Romantic and the Classical. We've just be confused by the storm. Science and psychology have played a great part to say nothing of sex.”

Source : "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America". Book by William C. Seitz, p. 103, 1983.
“Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.”
“I have not come up with anything original. It needs a better brain than mine! I have done what I can do in taking Dawkins' idea and extending it.”
“Nowhere in Scripture do I read where we are to discuss hospice care with seniors so they're willing to get out of the way and let younger folks live more expediently.”
“We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like bringing up a child. You don't stop after you've had it.”
“A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.”
“During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.”

Source : "The Impossible, Inevitable Redemption of Michael Vick" by Will Leitch, www.gq.com. August 18, 2011.
“I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, I could get used to this. And I just never stopped.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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