I think there is no one answer. It is still a struggle, there are tensions and I'm sure there are many people who would like to see these questions laid to rest or cease to be posed altogether.

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.

The next thing to do after discovering who you are is to build and add value to yourself

I have a computer, a vibrator, and pizza delivery. Why should I leave the house? " - Tabitha

My golf has really improved even though my score hasn't. I'm missing the ball much closer now.

In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.

One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.

Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.

I had a hollow leg. I could drink everyone under the table and not get drunk. My capacity was terrifying.

Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life.

Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.

It is God's will to bless us, but not necessarily on our terms. Sometimes what we think would be a wonderful blessing would not bless us at all.