The Argonauts Quotes

“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

“(About parenthood and BDSM)
Note that a difficulty in shifting gears, or a struggle to find the time, is not the same thing as an ontological either/or.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“[Single or lesbian motherhood] can be seen as [one] of the most violent forms taken by the rejection of the symbolic ... as well as one of the most fervent divinizations of maternal power - all of which cannot help but trouble an entire moral and legal order without, however, proposing an alternative to it”
― Julia Kristeva