All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions -… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We have to ask how we can stretch and how sometimes we can break the norms that determine what's intelligible and readable… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
When I was young there were lesbians who said "Oh, I will free myself of all norms of masculinity, all norms of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Let me say one thing to clarify my position. I think we can take distance from norm but I think we are… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there being two coherent genders. And if someone doesn't comply with… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
One struggles always with these norms. So one doesn't construct oneself freely without respect to norm but one works with one's historical… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
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… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
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… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. Certainly, without a camera a drone can't function,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Very often, if you just get the question: "Well, are you a Zionist?" if you say no, it's assumed that you want the destruction… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether or not… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“There is no life without the conditions of life that variably sustain life, and those conditions are pervasively social, establishing not the discrete ontology… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“That the power regimes of heterosexism and phallogocentrism seek to augment themselves through a constant repetition of their logic, their metaphysic, and their naturalized… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
