Citas de Maggie Nelson

• Porque desear olvidar lo mucho que has amado a alguien -y luego, olvidarlo de verdad- puede parecer, a veces, como el sacrificio de un hermoso pájaro que eligió, nada menos que por gracia, hacer de tu corazón un hábitat.

  Maggie Nelson

  Beautiful, Heart, Bird

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• It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can it at least keep me company within it?-No, not exactly. It cannot love me that way; it has no arms. But sometimes I do feel its presence to be a sort of wink-Here you are again, it says, and so am I.

  Maggie Nelson

  Loneliness, Blue, Solitude

  Maggie Nelson (2009). “Bluets”, p.28, Wave Books

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

  Maggie Nelson

  Art, Thinking, Great Art

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• No quiero ser demasiado doctrinaria, ¡pero vivimos en el patriarcado! Y, por lo tanto, todo lo que se asocia explícitamente con el género femenino, incluida la maternidad, debe reivindicarse a la defensiva, porque está devaluado o idealizado sentimentalmente, pero no apoyado. Creo tan firmemente que los seres humanos femeninos tienen valor que no siento la necesidad de discutirlo, pero creo que hay una parte de mí que quiere específicamente dejar espacio para que esas ideas se centralicen, aunque sólo sea por el momento.

  Maggie Nelson

  Believe, Motherhood, Thinking

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• Me encanta el lenguaje. No me molesta que sus efectos sean parciales. Para mí eso produce mucha cordura. Sería raro que los efectos del lenguaje fueran más que parciales, que toda tu vida existiera dentro de tus textos. Eso me daría mucho más miedo que el hecho de que el lenguaje fuera una herramienta inadecuada para representar.

  Maggie Nelson

  Language, Whole Life, Bother

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• 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.

  Maggie Nelson

  Loneliness, Solitude, Trying

  Maggie Nelson (2009). “Bluets”, p.28, Wave Books

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• 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.

  Maggie Nelson

  Art, Attention, Enough

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• Creo que escribir quema un poco la cuestión candente. A veces puede parecer que cuando vives con ciertas paradojas y no están articuladas, te sientes presionado a elegir. Me siento más cómodo viviendo en las paradojas que he nombrado y expuesto, mientras que cuando empecé podían parecer verdaderas agitaciones. Al menos, las veo con más claridad después de haberlas esbozado para mí y de haber encontrado un lugar en el que situarme en relación con ellas que me pareciera lo suficientemente bueno como para durar a lo largo de un libro.

  Maggie Nelson

  Real, Libro, Escritura

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• We're all human beings with bodily needs living within a system. We don't need to prove that we're not a part of the fabric of the culture in order to want to change it.

  Maggie Nelson

  Culture, Prove

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• Es mucho más fácil escribir sobre la gente cuando no vives con ella.

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  Escritura, Personas

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• Is it exciting to have a codified identity, which then gets a codified set of rights and recognitions and visibility? Are we supposed to take it from there, within the same system? Or are we trying to upset the table before we want a place at it?

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  Upset, Trying, Identity

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

  Maggie Nelson

  Believe, Medicine, Violence

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• 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.

  Maggie Nelson

  Mother, Children, Feminist

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• Our kids just aren't living in the same generation, and if they're not introduced to gender identity as a problem, they won't internalize them as a problem. Which isn't to say they won't meet bigotry in their lives.

  Maggie Nelson

  Kids, Identity, Problem

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• labels can be fun! Some people are like, "As a card-carrying bear, where I also have a little bit of fairy in me..." People have fun collaging these; there's a fun people have with their identifications. The irony of them can be lost if you're just wholeheartedly anti-identitarian.

  Maggie Nelson

  Fun, People, Irony

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• Whenever you get involved with talking about rights, you're talking about being a citizen. You're talking about being a citizen in capitalism; you're talking about what rights are granted to what identities, under what laws, and all that is a big mix. Marriage is, among many other things, a formality to channel capital through a family. And that's why the big DOMA lawsuit was about paying too many taxes! "I wouldn't have had to pay all these taxes if Theodora had been Theo" - that was the big tagline. It's all about protecting assets.

  Maggie Nelson

  Identity, Granted, Taxes

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• 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.

  Maggie Nelson

  Chicas, Chicos, Pensar

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• I'm not sure how to put this, but I didn't want things like gender transition to be, like, the money shot in talking about bodily change. The truth is that we are all changing all the time to each other. Anybody who's been in a relationship for more than a year, more than five years, knows this.

  Maggie Nelson

  Truth Is, Gender, Not Sure

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• 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.

  Maggie Nelson

  Ojo, Pensamiento, Gente

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• Yes, I'm writing about motherhood, but I bristle a little bit, especially living with someone whose parenting falls between the cracks of what the culture is ready to recognize as mothering or fathering, but who most certainly is an excellent parent.

  Maggie Nelson

  Fall, Writing, Motherhood

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• There's that layering of selves that we can have with someone else across a long relationship. I go to the baths, the Korean spa. I love looking at the maps of people's bodies. The women have so many mastectomy scars and ectopic pregnancy scars and stretch marks, and all these things are amazing and wondrous to me. I guess I find it stranger not to attend to flux than to attend to it. But in a relationship it's also scary - you don't know where you're going to end up when you go through change.

  Maggie Nelson

  Pregnancy, Long, Scary

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• Most of the bio men on earth were born to women, so it's pretty ordinary! But I think because I had come from a matriarchy - my father died when I was young, and I only have a sister and a stepsister - when I told my mom and my sister that I was having a boy, they were both like, "That does not compute within our family relation!" It was like, "Girls only here!" Now that all seems very strange to me.

  Maggie Nelson

  Niña, Mamá, Padre

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• In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

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  Art, Made, Distinction

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