"I would say that I'm a feminist theorist……" — Judith Butler

"I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist."

— Judith Butler

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57 Quotes by Judith Butler

Judith Butler has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there…
There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are…
You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular…
It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it…
Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality.
Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and…
I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I…
The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold…
Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.
Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.
Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation…

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More Feminist Quotes

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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything. — David Bailey
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. — Roseanne Barr
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women. — Ruth Benedict
Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But… — Bjork
I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body. — Elayne Boosler
I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it. — Jo Brand
There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber. — Jo Brand
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. — Charlotte Bronte
One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us. — Tammy Bruce
The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people. — Betty Buckley
A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men. — Julie Burchill

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