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Top 25 Sara Ahmed Quotes (2025 Update)

Sara Ahmed Quote: “When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about or if you went away.”

1. “When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about or if you went away.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “Where we find happiness teaches us what we value rather than simply what is of value.”

2. “Where we find happiness teaches us what we value rather than simply what is of value.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “When we have to think strategically, we also have to accept our complicity: we forgo any illusions of purity; we give up the safety of exteriority. If we are not exterior to the problem under investigation, we too are the problem under investigation. Diversity work is messy, even dirty, work.”

3. “When we have to think strategically, we also have to accept our complicity: we forgo any illusions of purity; we give up the safety of exteriority. If we are not exterior to the problem under investigation, we too are the problem under investigation. Diversity work is messy, even dirty, work.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “To live a feminist life is to make everything into something that is questionable. The question of how to live a feminist life is alive as a question as well as being a life question.”

4. “To live a feminist life is to make everything into something that is questionable. The question of how to live a feminist life is alive as a question as well as being a life question.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “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.”

5. “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 Quote: “We become a problem when we describe a problem.”

6. “We become a problem when we describe a problem.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “When you have to fight for an existence, fighting can become an existence.”

7. “When you have to fight for an existence, fighting can become an existence.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “Within the organization there is a gap between words and deeds, between what organizations say they will do, or what they are committed to doing, and what they are doing.”

8. “Within the organization there is a gap between words and deeds, between what organizations say they will do, or what they are committed to doing, and what they are doing.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “Every writer is first a reader, and what we read matters.”

9. “Every writer is first a reader, and what we read matters.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “Alienation is studious; you learn more about wishes when they are not what you wish for.”

10. “Alienation is studious; you learn more about wishes when they are not what you wish for.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “Indeed so often just talking about sexism as well as racism is heard as damaging the institution. If talking about sexism and racism is heard as damaging institutions, we need to damage institutions.”

11. “Indeed so often just talking about sexism as well as racism is heard as damaging the institution. If talking about sexism and racism is heard as damaging institutions, we need to damage institutions.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “The personal is theoretical.”

12. “The personal is theoretical.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “But think of this: those of us who arrive in an academy that was not shaped by or for us bring knowledges, as well as worlds, that otherwise would not be here. Think of this: how we learn about worlds when they do not accommodate us. Think of the kinds of experiences you have when you are not expected to be here. These experiences are a resource to generate knowledge.”

13. “But think of this: those of us who arrive in an academy that was not shaped by or for us bring knowledges, as well as worlds, that otherwise would not be here. Think of this: how we learn about worlds when they do not accommodate us. Think of the kinds of experiences you have when you are not expected to be here. These experiences are a resource to generate knowledge.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “It is certainly the case that responsibility for diversity and equality is unevenly distributed. It is also the case that the distribution of this work is political: if diversity and equality work is less valued by organizations, then to become responsible for this work can mean to inhabit institutional spaces that are also less valued.”

14. “It is certainly the case that responsibility for diversity and equality is unevenly distributed. It is also the case that the distribution of this work is political: if diversity and equality work is less valued by organizations, then to become responsible for this work can mean to inhabit institutional spaces that are also less valued.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “A significant step for a feminist movement is to recognize what has not ended. And this step is a very hard step. It is a slow and painstaking step. We might think we have made that step only to realize we have to make it again.”

15. “A significant step for a feminist movement is to recognize what has not ended. And this step is a very hard step. It is a slow and painstaking step. We might think we have made that step only to realize we have to make it again.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “Feminist consciousness can be thought of as consciousness of the violence and power concealed under the languages of civility, happiness, and love, rather than simply or only consciousness of gender as a site of restriction of possibility. You can venture into the secret places of pain by recalling something. You can cause unhappiness by noticing something. And if you can cause unhappiness by noticing something, you realize that the world you are in is not the world you thought you were in.”

16. “Feminist consciousness can be thought of as consciousness of the violence and power concealed under the languages of civility, happiness, and love, rather than simply or only consciousness of gender as a site of restriction of possibility. You can venture into the secret places of pain by recalling something. You can cause unhappiness by noticing something. And if you can cause unhappiness by noticing something, you realize that the world you are in is not the world you thought you were in.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “And then your frustration can be taken as evidence of your frustration, that you speak this way, about this or that, because you are frustrated. It is frustrating to be heard as frustrated; it can make you angry that you are heard as angry.”

17. “And then your frustration can be taken as evidence of your frustration, that you speak this way, about this or that, because you are frustrated. It is frustrating to be heard as frustrated; it can make you angry that you are heard as angry.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “To be a feminist at work is or should be about how we challenge ordinary and everyday sexism, including academic sexism. This is not optional: it is what makes feminism feminist. A feminist project is to find ways in which women can exist in relation to women; how women can be in relation to each other. It is a project because we are not there yet.”

18. “To be a feminist at work is or should be about how we challenge ordinary and everyday sexism, including academic sexism. This is not optional: it is what makes feminism feminist. A feminist project is to find ways in which women can exist in relation to women; how women can be in relation to each other. It is a project because we are not there yet.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “Someone says something you consider problematic. At first you try not to say anything. But they keep saying something. So maybe you respond, carefully, perhaps. You say why you think what they have said is problematic. You might be speaking quietly, but you are beginning to feel wound up, recognizing with frustration that you are being wound up by someone who is winding you up. The feminist killjoy appears here: when she speaks, she seems wound up. I appear here. This is my history: wound up.”

19. “Someone says something you consider problematic. At first you try not to say anything. But they keep saying something. So maybe you respond, carefully, perhaps. You say why you think what they have said is problematic. You might be speaking quietly, but you are beginning to feel wound up, recognizing with frustration that you are being wound up by someone who is winding you up. The feminist killjoy appears here: when she speaks, she seems wound up. I appear here. This is my history: wound up.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “Gentrification is a public policy for managing strangers: a way of removing those who would be eyesores; those who would reduce the value of a neighborhood; those whose proximity would be registered as price.”

20. “Gentrification is a public policy for managing strangers: a way of removing those who would be eyesores; those who would reduce the value of a neighborhood; those whose proximity would be registered as price.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “The more nots you are, the more committees you might end up on. Not being not can mean being less likely to end up doing this kind of work. Given that diversity work is typically less valued by organizations, then not being not can mean having more time to do more-valued work.”

21. “The more nots you are, the more committees you might end up on. Not being not can mean being less likely to end up doing this kind of work. Given that diversity work is typically less valued by organizations, then not being not can mean having more time to do more-valued work.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “I think of feminism as poetry; we hear histories in words; we reassemble histories by putting them into words.”

22. “I think of feminism as poetry; we hear histories in words; we reassemble histories by putting them into words.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “Individuals within the institution must act as if the decision has been made for it to be made. If they do not, it has not. A.”

23. “Individuals within the institution must act as if the decision has been made for it to be made. If they do not, it has not. A.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “We are dismissed as emotional. It is enough to make you emotional.”

24. “We are dismissed as emotional. It is enough to make you emotional.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “Doing diversity work has taught me that agreeing to something is one of the best ways of stopping something from happening. Agreeing to something is an efficient technique for stopping something because organizations can avoid the costs of disagreement.”

25. “Doing diversity work has taught me that agreeing to something is one of the best ways of stopping something from happening. Agreeing to something is an efficient technique for stopping something because organizations can avoid the costs of disagreement.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “Once upon a time I had the light, time passed and I didn’t realize my light was slipping away... I just woke up one day and it was dark.”

26. “Once upon a time I had the light, time passed and I didn’t realize my light was slipping away... I just woke up one day and it was dark.”

Sara Ahmed Quote: “Your own body becomes used as evidence that the walls of which you speak are not there or are no longer there; as if you have eliminated the walls through your own progression. You got through, so they are not there.”

27. “Your own body becomes used as evidence that the walls of which you speak are not there or are no longer there; as if you have eliminated the walls through your own progression. You got through, so they are not there.”

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