I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and they're unarticulated, you feel pressure to choose. I feel more comfortable living in the paradoxes that I've named and laid out, whereas when I started they might have felt like real agitations. At least I see them more clearly after having sketched them for myself and made a place to stand in relationship to them that felt okay enough to last through the course of a book.
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
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
In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
I love language. It doesn't bother me that its effects are partial. To me that is very sanity-producing. It would be weird if the effects of language… - Maggie Nelson
I love language. It doesn't bother me that its effects are partial. To me that is very sanity-producing. It would be weird if the effects of language…
I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art. - Maggie Nelson
I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
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
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…
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
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…
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