Morgana Rubini

“The fictional representation of the feminine is doubly elusive because the feminine is already a representation, a sign ... So far we have largely considered women as productive of the uncanny when viewed as objects by men, the uncanny effect being generated by 'slippage' between the woman as sign and the discontinuous expression of the 'something else', or woman-as-other, that exists within the sign (not, of course, the 'real self' of the woman, whatever that might be).”
― Allen Lloyd Smith

“I feel I can give you everything without giving myself away, I whispered in your basement bed. If one does one's solitude right, this is the prize.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“I told you I wanted to live in a world in which the antidote to shame is not honor, but honesty.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts