“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… — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital. — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“The ability of anyone in the culture to support and honour gay kids may depend on an ability to name them as such, notwithstanding… — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Copy Share Image
What I am proudest of is having a life where work and love are impossible to tell apart. — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“If critical analysis of repression is itself inseparable from repression, then surely to think with any efficacy has to be think in some distinctly… — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that an often quiet, but often palpable presiding image here... is the interpretive absorption of the child or adolescent whose sense of personal queerness may or may not (yet?) have resolved... Such a child - if she reads at all - is reading for important news about herself, without knowing what form that news will take;… — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Copy Share
“It is a rather amazing fact that, of the very many dimensions along which the genital activity of one person can be differentiated from… — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Copy Share Image
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… — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Copy Share Image
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… — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“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… — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“There is no unthreatened, unthreatening conceptual home for the concept of gay origins. We have all the more reason, then, to keep our understanding… — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Copy Share Image
