As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently.

- Judith Butler

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

- Judith Butler

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

- Judith Butler

All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.

- Judith Butler

We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones.

- Judith Butler

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 identity behind the expr…

- Judith Butler

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

- Judith Butler

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us,…

- Judith Butler