Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

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.

Happiness is found within Oneself. It can't be accessed through People or Things.

If you have no job, help is needed.

A rose's prick is better than a daisy's kiss.

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.

Hillary Clinton tries to reset, it failed. They all tried. But I'm different than those people. Go ahead.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

Any day that we don't give up puts us one day closer to success!

I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different genres and for different age groups.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.