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Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a…

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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its…
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in…
Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines…
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then…
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the…
I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even…
I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology…
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a…
It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power)…

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I was always into very androgynous things. Guys, girls... I'm into androgyny in general. — Evan Rachel Wood
Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee. — Edward Abbey
Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of… — Michel Foucault
We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female… — Kathy Acker
Three, community built on androgynous identity will mean the end of transsexuality as we know it. Either the transsexual will be able… — Andrea Dworkin
Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which… — Carolyn Heilbrun
To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for… — Carolyn Heilbrun
My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny. — Sadie Frost
There is a certain androgyny to my appeal. — Ellen Barkin
A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I… — Paloma Faith
The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into… — Bill Vaughan
In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny. — Lady Gaga

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