Judith Butler Quotes
... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.
Quotes to Explore
-
Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
-
I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.
-
There's nothing fun about 30 people standing around watching you, like, pretend to pleasure someone. Nothing enjoyable about it, believe me.
-
I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.
-
Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
-
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
-
I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
-
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
-
We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.
-
I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
-
Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
-
I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski
-
In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.
-
I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
-
Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.
-
Pain is never permanent.
-
I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
-
I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.
-
Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is therefore a closed system.
-
People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.
-
Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.
-
I think defeating Fox - and more importantly, getting the rest of the media to understand they do not do legitimate news - is very important. I hope to do that through pointing out their hypocrisy, propaganda, and general foolishness. But I also plan to beat them in the ratings and make them fear me.
-
... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.
