Sara Ahmed quotes

“Let’s take this figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. Does the feminist kill other people’s joy by pointing out moments of sexism? Or does she expose the bad feelings that get hidden, displaced, or negated under public signs of joy? Does bad feeling enter the room when somebody expresses anger about things, or could anger be the moment when the bad feelings that circulate through objects get brought to the surface in a certain way?”
-- Sara Ahmed

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“Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future. Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground.”
-- Sara Ahmed

Source : Sara Ahmed (2013). “The Cultural Politics of Emotion”, p.189, Routledge

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“Pain involves the violation or transgression of the border between inside and outside, and it is through this transgression that I feel the border in the first place”
-- Sara Ahmed

Source : Sara Ahmed (2014). “Cultural Politics of Emotion”, p.35, Edinburgh University Press

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“Let’s take this figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. Does the feminist kill other people’s joy by pointing out moments of sexism? Or does she expose the bad feelings that get hidden, displaced, or negated under public signs of joy? Does bad feeling enter the room when somebody expresses anger about things, or could anger be the moment when the bad feelings that circulate through objects get brought to the surface in a certain way?”
-- Sara Ahmed

Source : Sara Ahmed (2010). “The Promise of Happiness”, p.65, Duke University Press

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“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture!”

“I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.”

“The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.”

“The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.”

“I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.”

“My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.”

“Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.”