"There is no original or primary gender a……" — Judith Butler
"There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original."
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57 Quotes by Judith Butler
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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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Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and…
— Karen Armstrong
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Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses.
— Mario Batali
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us…
— Annie Besant
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The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight…
— Vinoba Bhave
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When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.
— David Bowie
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Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave.…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might…
— Jim Carrey
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I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me.
— Cher
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I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with…
— Margaret Cho
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Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money…
— Jarvis Cocker
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Much certainly of the happiness and purity of our lives depends on our making a wise choice of our companions…
— Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury
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