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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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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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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The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.
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I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.
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Scientists who do deny their politics—who claim to be objective and unemotional about gender while living in a world where even boats and automobiles are identified by sex—are fooling both themselves and the public at large.
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There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.
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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?
