Quotes by : Maggie Nelson

After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because....

I remember, around age ten, beholding the scene in The Shining in which the hot young woman whom Jack....

This is generous, for to be close to her pain has always felt like a privilege to me, even though pain....

I felt the wild need for any or all of these people that night. Lying there alone, I began to feel -....

[H]ow the force of one's adolescent curiosity and incipient lust often must war with the need to protect....

I truly don’t understand why at every Q and A, someone always asks, “Do you have a routine?” or....

Some of the subjects of Puppies and Babies may not identify as queer, but it doesn’t matter: the installation....

Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.

Trans” may work well enough as shorthand, but the quickly developing mainstream narrative it evokes....

But this time, so far as I can tell, my mother has not made her husband her desire incarnate, though....