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I was off to Yale to be a lesbian
Judith Butler / Philosopher
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We cannot choose with whom we cohabit the world.
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People need to know who I am and where I'm coming from.
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Needs
People
Who I Am
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Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Bread
Luxury
Possibility
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I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Comic
Position
Thinking
Fundamentally
Sexual
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Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.
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Gender
Taxi
Theory
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Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality.
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Kind
Morality
Slave
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Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.
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Promise
Way
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Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.
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Peace
War
Resistance
Satisfaction
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I must say, I feel the reception of my work is none of my business.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Feels
Reception
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The life doesn't simply get erased. It gets imprinted and remembered.
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I think it's important to live with a certain danger and a certain risk.
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Important
Risk
Thinking
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As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently.
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Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
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Feminine
Fixed
Masculine
Masculine And Feminine
Roles
Biologically
Constructed
Socially
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Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.
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Faces
Missing
Undone
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I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say.
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Argument
Be Good
Want
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The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.
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Capture
Failing
Shows
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We have to have a very strong criticism of modes of cooperation that entrench inequality.
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Cooperation
Criticism
Strong
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Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Connections
Identity
May
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People who expect enmity to suddenly convert into love are probably using the wrong model.
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Enmity
Models
People
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It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.
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Norm
Oneself
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I do not follow closely anymore, since there is a limit to how much heartsickness one can bear.
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Bears
Limits
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I think we have to ask, not, what "Gender trouble" is today but where "Gender trouble" is today.
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Thinking
Today
Trouble
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Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.
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Intervention
Photography
Relation
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I want to say that the way in which we understand gender actually changes the way we live gender.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Gender
Want
Way
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I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.
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Gay
Lesbian
Queer
Theorist
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Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Doe
Gender
Gender Identity
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We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Men
Speak
Way
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To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.
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Domination
Relation
Replicate
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War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.
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War
People
Produce
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We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
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Loses
Return
World
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I wonder about economic sanctions, though, since that is a way that states engage in boycotts against one another.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Economic Sanctions
Way
Wonder
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We're trying to divide groups or decide that some of them are truly victims and some of them are truly aggressors.
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Groups
Trying
Victim
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Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Determination
People
Self
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It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Moral
Source
Understanding
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There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Drag
Gender
Imitation
Kind
Original
Imitates
Primary
Which
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Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Space
Gender
Identity
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A certain kind of permission is given to live differently, to conceptualize and to act according to a new conceptualization.
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Given
Kind
Permission
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You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.
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Trust
Allegiance
Identity
Particular
Pledge
Absolutely
Signed
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So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.
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Collective Effort
Suicidal
Taken
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A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Consistently
Gay
Gender
Might
Sexuality
Read
Effeminate
Off
Heterosexual
Reads
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Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Precarious
Protected
Jewish
Life Value Me
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I think I never expected "Gender trouble" to have any particularly revolutionary effect so whatever effects it has, I'm always surprised.
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Revolutionary
Thinking
Trouble
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We have to ask how we can stretch and how sometimes we can break the norms that determine what's intelligible and readable and what is not.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Break
Norm
Sometimes
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All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Mean
Virtue
World
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I do think it's important that we experiment with new vocabularies. That new words help us conceptualize our social existence in a different way.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Important
Thinking
Vocabulary
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All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Body
Construction
Helping
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If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are hopeless.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Actors
Asking
Revenge
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We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Form
Sometimes
Vocabulary
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The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of Israel is untrue. Some have a heartfelt investment in corned beef sandwiches.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Beef
Heartfelt
Investment
Israel
Sandwiches
Untrue
Jews
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