there is no 'feminine writing' ... and one makes a mistake is using and giving currency to this expression.

Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.

... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

Today, together, let us repeat as our slogan that all trace of violence must disappear from this earth, then the sun will be honey-colored and music good to hear.

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

The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.

The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

Remember. Or, failing that, invent.

I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go.

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

I am because my little dog knows me.

If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.

Even more than feeling healthy, most people want to feel free and in control.

To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.

Design adds value faster than it adds cost.

When NASA says they're going into space, they don't mean up and back. They mean orbit.

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.