Butlers Quote by Judith Butler

“...gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very…

— Judith Butler

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender…

— Judith Butler

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

— Judith Butler

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

— Judith Butler

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

— Judith Butler

The gender thing doesn't exist; it's a social construct you don't have to fit into.

— Rain Dove

I don't think gender even exists.

— Amandla Stenberg

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

— Susan Griffin

The terms 'male' and 'female' must be understood as representing no mere primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two worlds of…

— Laura Riding

At the end of the day, the sovereignty of maleness is an illusion. In essence and in origin, we are all entirely female.

— Anohni

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you.

— Laverne Cox