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“The perenniality of the sexes and the perenniality of slaves and masters proceed from the same belief, and, as there are no slaves without masters, there are no women without men. The ideology of sexual difference functions as censorship in our culture by masking, on the ground of nature, the social opposition between men and women. Masculine/feminine, male/female are the categories which serve to conceal the fact that social differences always belong to an economic, political, ideological order. Every system of domination establishes divisions at the material and economic level. Furthermore, the divisions are abstracted and turned into concepts by the masters, and later on by the slaves when they rebel and start to struggle. The masters explain and justify the established divisions as a result of natural differences. The slaves, when they rebel and start to struggle, read social oppositions into the so-called natural differences.
For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary.”
― Monique Wittig, The Straight Mind: And Other Essays

“In analyzing the sex-class system, feminists are accused of inventing or perpetuating it. Calling attention to it, we are told, insults women by suggesting that they are victims, stupid enough to allow themselves to be victimized. Feminists are accused of being the agents of degradation by postulation that such degradation exists.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Right-Wing Women

“To, co nam na wstępie ukazują podróże, to nasze nieczystości rzucone w twarz światu.”
― Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques: An Anthropological Study of Primitive Societies in Brazil

“So now deal with me as you will;
command my spirit to be taken from me,
so that I may be released from the face of the earth and become dust.”
― J.N. Sparks, The Orthodox Study Bible