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“It’s not possible to live twenty-four hours a day soaked in the immediate awareness of one’s sex. Gendered self-consciousness has, mercifully, a flickering nature.”
Denise Riley, Am I That Name?: Feminism And The Category Of Women In History
“To put it into words’ is one of those ordinary sayings possessed of an extraordinary and temporally impossible syntax, which forces it into a doubled implication: that the ‘it’ is already formed before it is rendered verbal, yet it comes into shape through its own utterance.”
Denise Riley, [The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony (Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, Aesthetics)] [By: Riley, Denise] [June, 2000]
“If we are to talk in the language of social constructions, then the construction of the very concepts of the social and the biological must also be elucidated.”
Denise Riley, WAR IN NURSERY

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