Quote by Butler, Judith
"We are not born into an identity; we are born into a world that assigns meaning to our bodies."
"We are not born into an identity; we are born into a world that assigns meaning to our bodies."
"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."