Judith Butler
Philosopher, Gender Theorist
"Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being."
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Gender
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Judith Butler
Philosopher, Gender Theorist
"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."
Chaz Bono
Author, Activist, Musician
"Gender is between your ears and not between your legs."
Katharine Graham
Publisher, Businesswoman
"So few grown women like their lives."
Judith Butler
Philosopher, Gender Theorist
"Our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there being two coherent genders. And if someone doesn't comply with either the masculine norm or the feminine norm, their very humaness is called into question."
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"I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself."
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"It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States."
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"Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems."
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"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag."
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"I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence."
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"Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors."
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"Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts."
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"I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender."
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"I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to be free really to be a gender that is crucial to who they are."
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"I have never let gender get in my way."
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"Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed."
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"Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse."
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"Well, nobody's perfect."
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"Women are all we know of paradise on this earth."
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"Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever."
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"The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong."
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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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"The most important thing we're doing differently is that we talk openly about gender at Facebook."
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"Real feminism is spinsterhood."
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"Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender."
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