Judith Butler Quotes
To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.
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As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
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I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.
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If I lose touch with that... the reason why I act... then I'll leave it all. I don't do it for fame or money.
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To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.
