"our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there being two coherent genders. And if someone doesn't comply with either the masculine norm or the feminine norm, their very humaness is called into question."

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Source : Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

Judith Butler

#Two Quotes #Feminine Quotes #Gender Quotes

“Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.”
“I've heard about you. I've heard about you, too.”
“The things that were happening 30 years ago are now very interesting to people, now very much in style again. There is some kind of 30 year resonance that goes through human culture and expresses itself in different ways.”

Source : Source: medium.com
“If you fall down, get up and walk again. If you can't walk, crawl. IfÂ that idea fails, have another one It doesn't happen by accident. It takes a lot of hard work.”
“The doctor looked at it after the game and he thought it didn't look too bad, but we'll see what happens. My skate got caught and I twisted it. I heard it twist and I couldn't get up. All my body weight fell on it. I had to be really hurt to leave the game - we were still in the game at that point.”
“I don't much like to think that being a bachelor girl limits how you see the world. On the other hand, I know it certainly limits how the world sees you.”

Source : Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage
“There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires. He be a thin wire which gathers little energy and carries a weak current, or he may be a heavy one. That is true of all energy borrowed from the universe by all of us. It is there in unlimited quantities, but the gauge of the kind of wire each of us is set by ourselves.”
“I am so proud and so happy to be Filipino.”

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