"Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed……" — Judith Butler
"Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed."
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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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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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Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.
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More Biologically Quotes
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Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.
— Robert Carlyle
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Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
— Desmond Morris
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We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond…
— Noam Chomsky
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is…
— Cyril Connolly
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Biologically, I'm 10. Chronologically, I'm 33. In hockey years, I'm 66.
— Mark Messier
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Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a…
— Karl Popper
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As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.
— Anita Bryant
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It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The…
— Niels Kaj Jerne
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Surrogacy used to be difficult, because the woman that was carrying the child was biologically related to the child. And…
— Joan Lunden
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On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature…
— Unknown Author
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Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has…
— Robert Burton
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Cultural diversity and cultural change are desirable and inevitable. We are cultural animals, someone without a culture is not human.…
— Martin Wolf
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