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....

If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called ‘sex’ is as culturally....

I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not....

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

I argue that even as the war is framed in certain ways to control and heighten affect in relation to....

If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation....

To be called a copy, to be called unreal, is thus one way in which one can be oppressed. But consider....

Possibility is not a luxury it is as crucial as bread.

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