Judith Butler Quotes

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

Judith Butler

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• 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

• I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Important
  • My Life

• I am just an ordinary Catholic.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Catholic

• At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values.

  

  Ed Lee
  • Day
  • End
  • Values

• 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

• Meanwhile, among all its countless other effects upon human culture, Starglider had brought to its climax a process that was already well under way. It had put an end to the billions of the words of pious gibberish with which apparently intelligent men had addled their minds for centuries.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Men
  • Culture
  • Words

• GOD is watching us, from a Distance.

  

  Bette Midler
  • God
  • Distance

• 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
  • Posterity

• It is cross border terrorism. It's not the first time we are saying it.

  

  Anand Sharma
  • Time
  • Saying
  • Cross

• 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

• Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over - unless we find new ways of producing energy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • House
  • Energy

• The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Great
  • Small

• Most of the reason we don’t do things is because we’re afraid to fail. I just made a decision one day that I was not not going to do things in my life because of fear.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Reason
  • Decision
  • Failing

• I am the outcast come home to roost and the eggs of tomorrow are incubating in my fame. You hate me, you love me, you made me, and now I am in you. I am like that disease brewing in your loins and I think you like it.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • I Think
  • Fame
  • Disease

• Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Air
  • Beauty

• 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