"There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results."

-- Judith Butler

#Expression Quotes #Identity Quotes #Gender Quotes

“The concept of life and perfection is incompatible. BUT so is death and perfection”
“I hope you lay down in your sleep and you choke on every lie you told”

Source : Song: Fire Burns, Album: Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded Deluxe Edition, 2012
“No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.”
“But there's the rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The way of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning--the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life--a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them.”

Source : Jed Rubenfeld (2007). “The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan
“Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.”
“I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain't coming back from that.”
“My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.”
“But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract ideas or more sure that disagreement with him is proof of ignorance, bad faith or dogmatism. As a candidate, he insisted his real opponent was 'cynicism,' and in his address last week, he returned to this trite formulation, insisting again he was bravely battling the cynics.”

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