All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here.

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

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.

We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones.

All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.

To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently.

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

Socrates made people face their hypocrisy. He had to die.

We know something about billionaire consumption, but it is hard to measure some of it. Some billionaires are consuming politicians, others consume reporters, and some consume academics...

The world is an inferno. It will burn until every nation has fallen, until all who oppose us are dead, until people see the true light.

Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

I don't think anyone is free

The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has.

One must not mistake majority for truth.

He [Jesus] did not say, 'You will never have a rough passage, you will never be over-strained, you will never feel uncomfortable,' but he did say, 'You will never be overcome.

I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.

No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.