Judith Butler Quotes
Intersectionality has made an important contribution to social and political analysis, asking all of us to think about what assumptions of race and class we make when we speak about "women" or what assumptions of gender and race we make when we speak about "class." It allows us to unpack those categories and see the various kinds of social formations and power relations that constitute those categories.

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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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I'm happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV.
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In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers.
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I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.
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The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.
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Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and there are a lot of references to her eyes. Which sends out a great message for women, because life is not about the aesthetic all the time.
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You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie.
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One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
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Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.
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The word book acted as a transient stimulus...
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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You always have to know when to bow out. You bow out while you are on top.
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I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.
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Intersectionality has made an important contribution to social and political analysis, asking all of us to think about what assumptions of race and class we make when we speak about "women" or what assumptions of gender and race we make when we speak about "class." It allows us to unpack those categories and see the various kinds of social formations and power relations that constitute those categories.