Teresa de Lauretis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood experiences, sexual identity is nether innate nor simply acquired, but dynamically (re)structured by forms of fantasy private and public, conscious and unconscious, which are culturally available and historically specific.
-- Teresa de Lauretis

#Feminist #Childhood #Identity
The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.
-- Teresa de Lauretis

#World #Theory #States
But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the womens movement did not either.
-- Teresa de Lauretis

#Feminist #Movement #Males
The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.
-- Teresa de Lauretis

#Hero #Glowing #Differences
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.
-- Teresa de Lauretis

#Thinking #Subjectivity #Events

The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in feminist language. Instead of condemning young women for the length of their skirts, why not use that energy for condemning anyone who would think that a woman is lesser-than because she wears a miniskirt?
...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.
I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.
Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.
Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.
One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.
The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.
People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are all, by necessity, individuals with distinct identities and comparable claims on existence. Such words are nevertheless an apt vehicle for conveying the disparate treatment accorded to different groups. Those without status are all but invisible: they are treated brusquely by others, their complexities trampled upon and their singularities ignored.

Teresa de Lauretis famous quotes

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