Doe Quote by 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

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

— Rain Dove

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

— 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

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

My definition of gender expands beyond just two genders.

— Andy Dunn

“The misapprehension about gender performativity is this: that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction…

— Judith Butler

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

— Laverne Cox

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Gender is something that occurs in the mind, and sex is something that occurs, you know, everywhere else on the body. And whether or…

— Nicole Maines

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

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

— Susan Griffin