Quotes by Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn’t doesn’t captivate my attention very much.

Art

Attention

Enough

For pragmatic reasons, for lessening of violence and for allowing people to live better lives, I think that the march forward for GLBTQ+ rights is a worthwhile one. But for me, hopefully the frontier is alliance-making across all the social issues, whereby people can get over whatever prejudices they’re holding in order to keep their eyes on making livable lives for people in all states of vulnerability, no matter what their gender, sexuality, race, class, origin, whatever.

Eye

People

Thinking

For to wish to forget how much you loved someone– and then, to actually forget– can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.

Beautiful

Bird

Heart

I don’t ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

Believe

Medicine

Violence

I don’t think there’s any formula for what makes great art.

Art

Great Art

Thinking

I feel excited in that I think boys born to feminists have a leg up. At least, the ones I’ve met seem like they do. There’s something really vital about that exchange. I think I’d only imagined, beforehand, handing down a feminism to a young girl. But I’m newly excited by the challenge of raising a boy.

Boys

Girl

Thinking

I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one’s solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.

Loneliness

Solitude

Trying

I know that a lot of feminist fears about the trans movement have been, “Wait, we never got to the part where we focus on women! We tried for a minute, but we don’t want to lose the category all of a sudden. We haven’t heard yet from the females with children called mothers, we haven’t heard yet from all these groups!” On the one hand I’m very sympathetic to that, but the category of Women or Mothers, any of these categories, are on shifting sands and always have been.

Children

Feminist

Mother

I love language. It doesn’t bother me that its effects are partial. To me that is very sanity-producing. It would be weird if the effects of language were more than partial, if your whole life existed within your texts. That would be much scarier to me than language being an inadequate tool to represent.

Bother

Language

Whole Life

I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you’re living with certain paradoxes and they’re unarticulated, you feel pressure to choose. I feel more comfortable living in the paradoxes that I’ve named and laid out, whereas when I started they might have felt like real agitations. At least I see them more clearly after having sketched them for myself and made a place to stand in relationship to them that felt okay enough to last through the course of a book.

Book

Real

Writing

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Art

Attention

Beautiful

Believe

Bird

Blue

Book

Bother

Boys

Children

Culture

Distinction

Enough

Eye

Fall

Father

Feminist

Fun

Gender

Girl

Granted

Great Art

Heart

Identity

Irony

Kids

Language

Loneliness

Long

Made

Medicine

Mom

Mother

Motherhood

Not Sure

People

Pregnancy

Problem

Prove

Real

Scary

Solitude

Taxes

Thinking

Truth Is

Trying

Upset

Violence

Whole Life

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Quotes by Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn’t doesn’t captivate my attention very much.

For to wish to forget how much you loved someone– and then, to actually forget– can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.

I don’t ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

I don’t think there’s any formula for what makes great art.

I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one’s solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.

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