Aspiration Quotes

“When one makes a radical life change, one does not submit oneself to be changed by some transformative event or object; one’s agency runs all the way through to the endpoint. The nature of that agency, as I shall argue, is one of learning: coming to acquire the value means learning to see the world in a new way. But this, in turn, means that the process of valuing motherhood and the process of becoming a mother are not two separate events flanking a moment of decision, but rather one and the same process”
― Agnes Callard, Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming

“Aspirants open themselves up to a distinctive experience of losing everything without seeming to have lost anything at all.”
― Agnes Callard, Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming

“Behavior qualifies as agency insofar as it exhibits the distinctive intelligibility of being a response to reasons. “I do what happens,” as Anscombe said (1963: 52), but only when what happens happens for some reason.”
― Agnes Callard, Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming