10 famous quotes by judith butler
- We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
- There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender… identity is performatively constituted by the very ‘expressions’ that are said to be its results.
- Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
- When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we’ve taken on a role or we’re acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.
- I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women’s safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.
- There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
- Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.
- A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can’t read sexuality off of gender.
- I would say that I’m a feminist theorist before I’m a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.
- I don’t think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in the context of war.
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