Constructed Quote by Judith Butler Download Open image “Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.” — Judith Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Constructed Feminine Fixed Masculine Masculine and feminine Roles
In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I do not feel that some things are masculine and others are feminine. — Elvira Nabiullina Copy Share Image
The gender thing doesn't exist; it's a social construct you don't have to fit into. — Rain Dove Copy Share Image
Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
All humans are part male and part female. The other side must be explored to gain complete understanding ofourselves and the world we live… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning. — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Masculinity involves feminine qualities, and femininity involves masculine qualities. — Dan Levy Copy Share Image
We all live in a culture that is continually isolating feminine and masculine aspects, even when they're not related to people. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. Certainly, without a camera a drone can't function,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Very often, if you just get the question: "Well, are you a Zionist?" if you say no, it's assumed that you want the destruction… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether or not… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“There is no life without the conditions of life that variably sustain life, and those conditions are pervasively social, establishing not the discrete ontology… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“That the power regimes of heterosexism and phallogocentrism seek to augment themselves through a constant repetition of their logic, their metaphysic, and their naturalized… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of… — David Lange Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village. Suddenly, eleven… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
The basis on which the Good Friday agreement was constructed was in addressing those problems in the history of Northern Ireland, the social and… — John Reid Copy Share Image
I actually think that 'Bandbox,' by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them. — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Life doesn't just happen; it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world:… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from what I… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated. Even diseases… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
A team is constructed with time and automatismos, habits, mechanisms. — Cesar Azpilicueta Copy Share Image
The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene.… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese state has… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
