“Perhaps none of us assumes romantic love to be a birthright. Yet the confidence it will come surely admits of degrees. Growing up, I assumed I was the word that rhymed with none other-- like "silver" or "orange," glistering bright,… — Kenji Yoshino Copy Share
“In looking for a vocabulary for this quest for authenticity, I found psychoanalysts more helpful than lawyers. The object-relations theorist D. W. Winnicott makes a distinction between a True Self and a False Self that usefully tracks the distinction between the uncovered and covered selves. The True Self is the self that gives an individual the feeling of being real,… — Kenji Yoshino Copy Share
“Peter Brook’s production with Laurence Olivier as Titus was one of the great theatrical experiences of the 1950s” — Kenji Yoshino Copy Share Image
“What is needed is not sight, but insight—I need to look at your visual “impairment” and infer that my own impairment might be the… — Kenji Yoshino Copy Share Image
“Perhaps none of us assumes romantic love to be a birthright. Yet the confidence it will come surely admits of degrees. Growing up, I assumed I was the word that rhymed with none other-- like "silver" or "orange," glistering bright, but sonnet foiling, and always solitary traveling. Somewhere love happened, plausible as a catch of distant conversation. But not in… — Kenji Yoshino Copy Share
“Growing up, women were not the mystery—I knew how they worked, or thought I did. Men were the mystery, obscure in their violences and… — Kenji Yoshino Copy Share Image
“I remember a biology lab in which we observed a spear-headed water worm. Like a starfish, it could grow back anything we razored off… — Kenji Yoshino Copy Share Image
“No one has written adequately of what happens when enough of the body's naked surface is pressed against another human being's. It is a… — Kenji Yoshino Copy Share Image
