Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.

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.

Best way to deal with fear is to confront it.

Love cannot exist without giving, however giving can exist without love.

Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.

Sure, I love fairy tales.

I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.

They grew fat and happy--the horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter.

A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.

For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.