"Performance is not a singular act for Judith Butler, but rather a repeated stylization of the body, a set of repeated acts within a highly rigid regulatory frame that congeals over time to produce the appearance of substance."
"Gender is performatively constituted by the very expressions that are said to be its results."
"There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the expressions themselves."
"If one 'is' a woman, that is surely not all one is."
"The body is not a being, but a variable boundary, a surface whose permeability is politically regulated."