Judith Butler Quotes

I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to be free really to be a gender that is crucial to who they are.

Judith Butler

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• I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Me
  • Waiting

• Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Home
  • American
  • Community

• I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.

  

  Iman
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Muslim

• I support GMOs. And we should label them. We should label them because that is the very best thing we can do for public acceptance of agricultural biotech. And we should label them because there's absolutely nothing to hide.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Support
  • Best
  • Acceptance

• I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Live
  • Nice
  • Taste

• It's a whole new world out here. The online world is like a blackboard on which, when you write, the whole world can see - and I'm thrilled about this development. I want to make full use of it.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • World
  • Want
  • Development

• Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

  

  Gale Norton
  • Why
  • Government
  • Environment

• I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

  

  Rachel Ticotin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Career

• Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Work
  • Great
  • Forever

• I think that Yulia Tymoshenko should prepare to resign. She understands that well.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • She
  • Think
  • Prepare

• In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for women. This is an issue of women's rights: Planned Parenthood is the most important private provider of reproductive health care for women in the United States.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Important
  • Women
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• I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.

  

  Carole King
  • School
  • Done
  • High

• The threat of nuclear terrorism is growing faster than our ability to prevent an attack on our homeland.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Growing
  • Terrorism
  • Prevent

• Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • People
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• Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Hope
  • Minds
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• Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.

  

  Al Pacino
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Dude, what matters is if you're happy. What matters is your future. What matters is that we get out of here in one piece. What matters is finding the truth of our own lives, not caring about what other people think is the truth of us.

  

  Amy Sarig King
  • People
  • Truth
  • Happy

• I think we have to ask, not, what "Gender trouble" is today but where "Gender trouble" is today.

  

  Judith Butler
  • I Think
  • Ask
  • Gender Trouble

• I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

  

  Lord Dunsany
  • Experience
  • Imagination
  • Lifetime

• I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • World
  • Experience
  • Learn

• I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Character
  • Stuff
  • Size

• I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to be free really to be a gender that is crucial to who they are.

  

  Judith Butler
  • I Think
  • Gender
  • Variety