I think, what I want to say is that yes, my ideas have travelled into popular culture they also emerged from popular culture in a way, or from the general public as you put it. But not as a program.

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.

In order to move forward, you will have to stumble along the way, but every falter in your stride just makes your next step even stronger.

It's not about the speed of the river, but flow of the current.

I'm not an American hero. I'm a person who loves children.

Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.

In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.

As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do

I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.