Body Quote by Nicole Maines

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

— Judith Butler

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender…

— Judith Butler

Gender and sex are about rules which we have invented, but we are animals; we belong to nature.

— Alessandro Michele

To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is…

— Jan Morris

We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be…

— Kathy Acker

When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting in some way and that our…

— Judith Butler

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The terms 'male' and 'female' must be understood as representing no mere primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two worlds of…

— Laura Riding

I believe in assigned sex but not necessarily gender. Gender is a learned construct that is detrimental to both sexes.

— Esme Creed-Miles

Bodies have a sex, but gender is a thing we made up, like your star sign or nationality. It doesn't really say anything about…

— Sara Pascoe

Sometimes there are ways to minimize the importance of gender in life, or to confuse gender categories so that they no longer have descriptive…

— Judith Butler

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very…

— Judith Butler