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

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Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us.

Judith Butler's Popular Quotes

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

- Judith Butler

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

- 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

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

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

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

- 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