Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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When some people rejoin with “All Lives Matter” they misunderstand the problem, but not because their message is untrue. It is true that all lives matter, but it is equally true that not all lives are understood to matter which is precisely why it is most important to name the lives that have not mattered, and are struggling to matter in the way they deserve.

Judith Butler's Popular Quotes

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

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

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

- Judith Butler

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

- 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

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