About Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson is an American writer. She writes in many areas such as autobiography, art criticism, theory, feminism, queer studies, sexual violence, avant‑garde history, aesthetic theory, philosophy, scholarship, and poetry. She received a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship and other major awards before that. She is best known for her 2015 book The Argonauts, an example of autotheory.
![“44. [...] later that afternoon, a therapist will say to me, "If he hadn’t lied to you, he would have been a different person than he is." She is trying to get me to see that although I thought I loved this man very completely for exactly who he was, I was in fact blind to the man he actually was…” quote by Maggie Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/79b/maggie-nelson-4294_bad-man_44-later-that-afternoon-a-therapist-will_1846061.jpg)
![“[He] told me more than once that being with me is like an epileptic with a pacemaker being married to a strobe light artist.” quote by Maggie Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e3/maggie-nelson-4294_art_he-told-me-more-than-once-that-being-wit_935533.jpg)
