Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality.

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.

True freedom is the ability to respond consciously, in the most beneficial way, to whatever life throws at you.

Both sides had more confidence in their opponents' weaknesses than their own strength.

The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose.

Great marketing only makes a bad product fail faster.

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

It would bring tears in your eyes to make you think of all those years, the type of brain-washing that this man will use in America to keep us separated from our own people.

Oh, honey, if he swung batter-batter for my team, I'd be all over that in a heartbeat.

I'm a professional Jonathan Coulton. It's partially ego, to be completely honest: It feels great to have people adoring you in that way.

When I was little, I met Ronald Reagan. I think I said something to him.