Elaine

“Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression. I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.”
― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

“Beauty is not good capital. I compounds the oppression of gender. It constrains those who identify as women against their will. It costs money and demands money. It colonizes. It hurts. It is painful. It can never be fully satisfied. It is not useful for human flourishing. Beauty is, like all capital, merely valuable.”
― Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

“[to know your whites] ... is to be intimate with some white persons but to critically withhold faith in white people categorically”
― Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

“Smart is only a construct of correspondence, between one’s abilities, one’s environment, and one’s moment in history.”
― Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays