Grosz, Elizabeth

Philosopher-Feminist Australian Born 1952 (age 74)

Developed feminist philosophy of becoming and difference.

381 quotes

"Thought itself is a form of movement and becoming."
Knowledge
"We must think beyond humanist frameworks of understanding."
Philosophy
"Materiality is always active and generative, never passive."
Science
"Difference within identity is more fundamental than identity itself."
Wisdom
"The body can be understood as a map of intensities and potentials."
Art
"Temporality and spatiality are inseparable dimensions of experience."
Time
"Freedom emerges through the acknowledgment of constraint and limitation."
Freedom
"The self is not a unified entity but a multiplicity in process."
Philosophy
"We are always already enmeshed in relations of power and knowledge."
Power
"Creative becoming requires the embrace of discomfort and risk."
Courage
"The boundary between self and other is permeable and unstable."
Relationships
"Embodiment is not a limitation but a condition of possibility."
Strength
"Knowledge is always situated and perspectival rather than objective."
Knowledge
"We must resist the urge to reduce complexity to simple binaries."
Wisdom
"Time moves differently for different bodies and in different spaces."
Time
"The virtual and the actual are mutually implicating dimensions of reality."
Philosophy
"Beauty emerges from unexpected juxtapositions and strange connections."
Beauty
"The political always inheres in the personal and the bodily."
Politics
"We must cultivate the capacity to think otherwise and become otherwise."
Education
"Desire is not a lack but a productive force of becoming."
Power
"History is not a linear progression but a tangle of forces and possibilities."
History