It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.

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 only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

Hope shines like a candle in the darkness. Keep the flame alive.

Choosing to know yourself deeply hands you a torch to see beyond yourself, into the future. Into a strong future.

Victory is a thing of the will.

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

What is lacking to the underdeveloped nations is not knowledge, but capital.

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Great performers are preparing and practicing for a winning day while everyone else is still asleep.

The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.