Judith Butler Quotes
Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?
Quotes to Explore
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.'
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I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.' And God gave it to me.
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I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.
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Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.
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You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
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The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.
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There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
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There's something wholesome about the theatre.
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I plan on working out for the first part of the day, because if I let my day get away from me, the workout is out the window!
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You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.
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Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.
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People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact.
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And it feels like, finally.
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I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb.
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Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.
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I guess I'd just been thinking about it for so long that I forgot changing your gender was not even a question for most people. They just took for granted being a boy or a girl. I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be so sure of yourself.
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We will ask two central questions throughout this course: 1. What difference does gender make? 2. For which women does it make a difference? Which women?
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Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?
