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Persimmon Blackbridge, from the Kiss and Tell Collective, Her Tongue on My Theory (Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1994), 5.

With some premonition I sensed that [Monique Wittig’s The Lesbian Body] had an edge on all the other radical texts I had come across. Somehow I knew, even then, that to comprehend the meaning of this text, to approach this unknown world where a lesbian body existed, would require a definite separation from the world I knew. Witness the faint tremor in the hands, the thin veil of sweat starting to cover my body, my rapidly beating heart. Surely these symptoms were telling me something, something I can say now but couldn’t say then. That the very hands that held those texts were lesbian hands, that those legs, arms, breasts, cunt, feet, hips were lesbian, that the mind attached to that body was a lesbian mind, thinking lesbian thoughts, seditious and rebellious lesbian thoughts.

Susan Stewart, in Her Tongue on My Theory.