Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

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What I am proudest of is having a life where work and love are impossible to tell apart.
-- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

#And Love #Impossible
I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.
-- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

#Intellectual #Obsession #Form
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

#Children #Believe #Gay
People are different from each other
-- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

#People #Different

I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on 'Episodes.' He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he's such a huge gay person.
I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.
I believe we can balance the scales if Tom Cruise would lower his quote by a mere $29 million... I assure you my salary would not make a difference. My annual salary is the budget for Altoids on one of Tom's movies.
Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.
Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.
This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.
Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. Iâ€™d found my happiness.
To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it.
Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick famous quotes

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