Ahmed, Sara

"The promise that can be made is that you will be taken seriously."

"Affect is what sticks. Or what permits one to move on."

"We are oriented toward objects and others through what I call 'direction.'"

"The European subject is assumed to be one who can will himself to be otherwise."

"Happiness is not a feeling; it is an orientation toward the world."

"Diversity is a starting point, not an ending point."

"To follow someone is to move with them, to be moved by them."

"Queerness is about being implicated, or compromised."

"The straight way is assumed as the default orientation."

"We are shaped by what we are around."

"To be tired is to be affected by the world."

"Social norms are sticky; they accumulate around us."

"The body has a memory that precedes consciousness."

"Disorientation can be a form of freedom."

"We live in the traces of others."

"Justice requires attending to what is lost."

"The world is made of fragments, of broken things."

"To be touched is to be transformed."

"Happiness is not an individual achievement."

"We are all implicated in systems of power."

"The personal is political, and the political is intimate."

"Orientation is about direction, about where we are heading."

"To follow is not the same as to obey."

"The world is a sticky place."

"We are dependent on others for our existence."

"Discomfort can be productive."

"The straight line is a fiction."

"We must attend to what is overlooked."

"Affect travels; it moves between bodies."

"The child is not a blank slate but a being in relation."