Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Quotes

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

  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

  Intellectual, Obsession, Form

  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Adam Frank (2003). “Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity”, p.2, Duke University Press

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• 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

  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1993). “Tendencies”, p.2, Duke University Press

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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, Work And Love

  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (2000). “A Dialogue on Love”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• People are different from each other

  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

  People, Different

  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (2007). “Epistemology of the Closet: Updated with a New Preface”, p.22, Univ of California Press

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• 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

  Gay, Balance, Would Be

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