Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Quotes

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.

People are different from each other

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.

What I am proudest of is having a life where work and love are impossible to tell apart.

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