Performative Quotes
- Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love' is one of… — David Foster Wallace
- So capital is in fact borderless; that's the problem. On the other hand capital has to keep borders alive in order for this kind of… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a… — Irvine Welsh
- Most actors and actresses are performative as people. — Zoe Lister-Jones
- To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We… — Judith Butler
- I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy… — Laura Wade
- Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by… — Robert Pinsky