Judith Butler Quotes

"I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist."
- Judith Butler
(Related: Gay, Lesbian)

"There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original."
- Judith Butler
(Related: Gender, Imitation)

"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
(Related: Gender, Identity, Results)

"The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities."
- Judith Butler
(Related: Network)

"Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies."
- Judith Butler
(Related: Work, Class, Race, Sexuality)

"Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media."
- Judith Butler
(Related: Mistake, Feminism, Law, Media)

"I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic."
- Judith Butler