I feel excited in that I think boys born to feminists have a leg up. At least, the ones I've met seem like they do. There's something really vital ab…

- Maggie Nelson

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

- Maggie Nelson

Whenever you get involved with talking about rights, you're talking about being a citizen. You're talking about being a citizen in capitalism; you're…

- Maggie Nelson

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

- Maggie Nelson

Our kids just aren't living in the same generation, and if they're not introduced to gender identity as a problem, they won't internalize them as a p…

- Maggie Nelson

Is it exciting to have a codified identity, which then gets a codified set of rights and recognitions and visibility? Are we supposed to take it from…

- Maggie Nelson

For to wish to forget how much you loved someone-- and then, to actually forget-- can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chos…

- Maggie Nelson

I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignit…

- Maggie Nelson

Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood, …

- Maggie Nelson