Quotes by : Judith Butler

There is no life without the conditions of life that variably sustain life, and those conditions are....

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something....

That the power regimes of heterosexism and phallogocentrism seek to augment themselves through a constant....

The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to....

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence,....

The misapprehension about gender performativity is this: that gender is a choice, or that gender is a....

You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to....

Democracy does not speak in unison; its tunes are dissonant, and necessarily so. It is not a predictable....

What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly,....

Precisely because a living being may die, it is necessary to care for that being so that it may live.....