Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Quotes

#1. I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay. What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth. They even speak for others too delicate to use the cruel words.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

#2. That's one of the things that "queer" can refer to: the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning when the constituent elements of anyone's gender, of anyone's sexuality aren't made (or can't be made) to signify monolithically.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

#3. There is a Precious Mountain
Even the Seven Treasures cannot compare
A cold moon rises through the pines
Layer upon layer of bright clouds
How many towering peaks?
How many wandering miles?
The valley streams run clear
Happiness forever!

Hanshan

#4. For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.

August Wilson

#5. What I am proudest of is having a life where work and love are impossible to tell apart.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

#6. I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong.

Cindy Sheehan

#7. There was no movie ending. There was only ending.

Alex Flinn

#8. Film is better than digital in every way. It has better contrast ratio, better blacks, and better color reproduction. It's a more organic image, which is more the way your eyes see.

James Gray

#9. The real "work" of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.
To gently push aside and silence the many voices that question my goodness and to trust that I will hear the voice of blessing
that demands real effort.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#10. I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.

Flavor Flav

#11. This is because the caress is not a simple stroking; it is a shaping.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

#12. Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.

Dalai Lama

#13. Girls can do everything men can do ... just backwards and in heels

Ginger Rogers

#14. His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

Ann Brashares

#15. I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

#16. People are different from each other

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

#17. If I had ever, in any medium, seen any researcher or popularizer refer even once to any supposedly ay-producing circumstance as the proper hormone balance, or the conducive endocrine environment, for gay generation, I would be less chilled by the breezes of all this technological confidence.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

#18. There is no unthreatened, unthreatening conceptual home for the concept of gay origins. We have all the more reason, then, to keep our understanding of gay origin, of gay cultural and material reproduction, plural, multi-capillaried, argus-eyed, respectful, and endlessly cherished.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

#19. The ability of anyone in the culture to support and honour gay kids may depend on an ability to name them as such, notwithstanding that many gay adults may never have been gay kids and some gay kids may not turn into gay adults.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick