"11 Judith Butler Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 24 February 1956 | Philosopher | Gender theorist |

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

Judith Butler

Lose Read Transformed World

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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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Original Primary Gender Imitation

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...laughter emerges in the realization that all along the original was derived.

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Laughter Realization Original Derived

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Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.

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Life Protected Precarious Value

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Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

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Possibility Luxury Crucial

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I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

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Think Sexual Position Comic

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Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

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Masculine Feminine Roles Socially

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I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

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Gender Feminism Women Equality

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There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

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Gender Identity Expressions Results

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Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.

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Love Feeling History Vision

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To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

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Operate Power Domination

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"11 Judith Butler Quotes & Sayings

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

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.

Judith Butler

...laughter emerges in the realization that all along the original was derived.

Judith Butler

Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.

Judith Butler

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

Judith Butler

I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

Judith Butler

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

Judith Butler

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

Judith Butler

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

Judith Butler

Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.

Judith Butler

To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

Judith Butler

Judith Butler Quotes & Sayings

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"11 Judith Butler Quotes & Sayings

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

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.

Judith Butler

...laughter emerges in the realization that all along the original was derived.

Judith Butler

Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.

Judith Butler

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

Judith Butler

I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

Judith Butler

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

Judith Butler

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

Judith Butler

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

Judith Butler

Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.

Judith Butler

To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

Judith Butler

Judith Butler Quotes & Sayings

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