"Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time,……" — Judith Butler
"Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts."
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Judith Butler
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57 Quotes by Judith Butler
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There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there…
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There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are…
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You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular…
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It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it…
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Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality.
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Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and…
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I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I…
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The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold…
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Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
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Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.
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Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.
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Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
— Sai Baba
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
— Philip James Bailey
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
— Bernard Baruch
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
— Joseph Addison
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long…
— Alfred Adler
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
— William Blake
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Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of…
— John Boehner
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