Philosophy Quotes

"We must think about liberation in global terms."

"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."

"Performativity is not a single act, but a repetition and a ritual."

"We are not born with a gender; we perform our gender."

"What I would propose, then, is a way of understanding performativity as that reiterative power of discourse to produce the phenomena that it regulates and constrains."

"Subversion is not the same as transgression."

"To 'do' the doing of one's gender is not an act of pure creativity."

"Melancholia is the price of the failure to grieve."

"The abject is what we must expel to establish ourselves as subjects."

"The frame determines what will be visible and what will remain obscured."

"Vulnerability is not something to overcome but something to acknowledge."

"Agency is not simply something that resides in the subject."

"The subject is not sovereign but is constantly being constituted through discourse."

"The norm establishes itself through repetition."

"Language is not an individual possession but a social and political practice."

"The subject is not prior to culture but is produced through it."

"To be addressed is to be called into being."

"Identity is a repeated stylization of the body."

"There is no escape from the constitutive effects of power."

"The heteronarrative is not inevitable but contingent."

"We are always already implicated in the systems we seek to critique."

"The body is never simply one's own."

"Survival is not simply a biological fact but a social and political one."

"To be precarious is to be dependent on social support systems."

"The encounter with alterity is what opens us to ethics."

"The other exceeds our attempt to comprehend them."

"Language fails before the other, and that failure is necessary."