"We lose ourselves in what we read, only……" — Judith Butler
"We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world."
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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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More Expansive Quotes
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Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.
— Mary Abigail Dodge
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A narrow vision is divisive, a broad vision expansive. But a divine vision is all-inclusive.
— Tejomayananda
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Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the…
— Debbie Ford
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The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of…
— John William Draper
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In a situation like this, of course you identify with everyone who's suffering. (But we must also think about) the…
— Richard Gere
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Early readers assumed the Book of Mormon people ranged up and down North and South America from upstate New York…
— Unknown Author
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It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of…
— George F. Kennan
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Close both eyes see with the other one. Then we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent…
— Greg Boyle
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Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its…
— Unknown Author
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Learning organizations organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive…
— Peter Senge
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What I have related is sufficient for establishing the main principle, namely, that the heat which disappears in the conversion…
— Joseph Black
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