"The point is not to stay marginal, but……" — Judith Butler
"The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities."
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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 American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
— Russell Baker
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I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than…
— Robert Benchley
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Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we…
— Kate Adie
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We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly…
— John O. Brennan
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed.…
— Mel Brooks
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War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over…
— Queen Noor of Jordan
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The other General Welfare Clause is in the first of the authorities given to the Congress and it's not a…
— Andrew Napolitano
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In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial…
— Gijs de Vries
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In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph…
— Frederick Soddy
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A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
— Lucretia Mott
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