Performance Intended Quotes by Sandra Bartky

We are born male or female, but not masculine or feminine.

— Sandra Bartky

The disciplinary power that inscribes femininity in the female body is everywhere and it is nowhere; the disciplinarian is everyone and yet no one…

— Sandra Bartky

Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.

— Sandra Bartky

Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.

— Sandra Bartky

Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.

— Sandra Bartky