Grosz, Elizabeth

"The past is not dead; it continues to animate the present"

"We are responsible for the worlds we create through our practices"

"Affirmation requires us to say yes to life in all its complexity"

"The smooth and the striated coexist in ways that trouble our categories"

"Transformation is always a matter of becoming otherwise"

"We must cultivate an ethics of care and attention to difference"

"The virtual and actual are not opposed but mutually constitutive"

"Time is not a container but a dynamic process of becoming"

"We inherit and remake the future simultaneously"

"The body speaks in ways that exceed language"

"Critique is an affirmative practice, not merely a negative one"

"We must think across disciplinary boundaries to address complex problems"

"Identity is a process rather than a possession"

"The political is always present in the intimate"

"We create meaning through our engagements with others and the world"

"Uncertainty is the ground of freedom and responsibility"

"The archive speaks to us of what has been excluded"

"We must resist the closure of meaning and embrace interpretive openness"

"Becoming is not about arriving at a destination but about the process itself"

"The body is a threshold between the individual and the collective"

"Innovation requires us to think differently about familiar problems"

"We are always negotiating between structure and agency"

"Affinity is a more useful category than identity"

"The virtual opens new possibilities for thinking and being"

"We must attend to the materiality of culture"

"Time is folded; past and future impinge upon the present"

"We create ourselves through our choices and commitments"

"Difference is productive, not merely oppositional"

"The body resists its complete inscription by culture"

"We must learn to think in terms of multiplicities and becomings"