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… — 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… — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“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