Judith Butler Quotes

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

Judith Butler

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• When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Women
  • Support
  • Gender

• If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Race
  • Someone
  • Gender

• I feel like there's no such thing as gender.

  

  Young Thug
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Gender

• Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Almost
  • Imitation
  • Absurdity

• When it comes to swag, there's no gender involved.

  

  Young Thug
  • Involved
  • Gender

• We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Country
  • Model
  • Equality

• I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Very
  • Gender
  • Representation

• Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Identity
  • Gender
  • Who You Are

• I don’t care what gender someone is, or what race they are. Those things don’t matter to me.

  

  Louie Gohmert
  • Care
  • Gender
  • Don't Care

• The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Science
  • Law
  • Teach

• A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • May
  • Consequence
  • Baptism

• We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Temptation
  • Resist
  • Imitation

• As I said in the Times and will say again here, I do, however, believe that most members of our community - as well as the majority of heterosexuals - cannot and do not choose the gender of the persons with whom they seek to have intimate relationships because, unlike me, they are only attracted to one sex.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Believe
  • Community
  • Sex

• Actions must have consequences.

  

  Babatunde Fashola
  • Action
  • Consequence

• For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Animals

• It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Thinking
  • Consequence
  • Fiesta

• Art is but imitation of nature.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Art
  • Imitation

• By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Consequence
  • Discourse
  • Succeeds

• Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I didn't retire, I became irrelevant - there is a big difference.

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • Differences
  • Bigs
  • Retiring

• I was taught to be demure, so it was harder for me to learn how to stand up for myself and go, 'What do I want? What are my desires?'

  

  Heather Graham
  • Learn
  • Demure

• You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you deceive yourselves'.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Practice
  • Theory
  • Deny

• I'd be lying to you if I said at 8 I went up to my parents and said, 'Listen, I'm going to become an actor.' That was not the case.

  Eugene Simon
  • Actor
  • Case
  • My Parents

• Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Consequence
  • Gender
  • Imitation