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> [Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood experiences, sexual identity is nether innate nor simply acquired, but dynamically (re)structured by forms of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teresa-de-lauretis/some-women-have-always-been-lesbians-others-like-myself-have-become/)

[Teresa de Lauretis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teresa-de-lauretis/)

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## Other authors on Lesbians

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## More by Teresa de Lauretis

> [To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teresa-de-lauretis/to-say-it-another-way-thinking-however-abstract-originates-in-an/)

[Teresa de Lauretis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teresa-de-lauretis/)

> [But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teresa-de-lauretis/but-one-did-not-do-feminist-theory-as-such-in-those-days-not-only/)

[Teresa de Lauretis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teresa-de-lauretis/)

> [But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teresa-de-lauretis/but-one-did-not-do-feminist-theory-as-such-in-those-days-not-only-2/)

[Teresa de Lauretis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teresa-de-lauretis/)

> [“Eco's emphasis is a productivist one: his view of sign production, and especially of the mode he calls invention, associating it with art and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teresa-de-lauretis/eco-s-emphasis-is-a-productivist-one-his-view-of-sign-production-and/)

[Teresa de Lauretis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teresa-de-lauretis/)

> [The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teresa-de-lauretis/the-state-of-the-world-of-course-is-constantly-changing-and-so-is/)

[Teresa de Lauretis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teresa-de-lauretis/)

> [Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teresa-de-lauretis/some-women-have-always-been-lesbians-others-like-myself-have-become/)

[Teresa de Lauretis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teresa-de-lauretis/)

> [The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teresa-de-lauretis/the-hero-the-mythical-subject-is-constructed-as-human-being-and-as/)

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