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Monique Wittig was a French author and feminist theorist who wrote about overcoming socially enforced gender roles and who coined the phrase "heterosexual contract". She published her first novel, L'Opoponax, in 1964. Her second novel, Les Guérillères , was a landmark in lesbian feminism. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. July 1935 – 3. January 2003
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“Lesbians are not women.”

Source: The Straight Mind (1992), p. 32

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