People who expect enmity to suddenly convert into love are probably using the wrong model.

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.

She wore an A-line bridal gown with a V-shaped neckline while Apollo playing Bach's Air on the G string.

Great is the road I climb but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.

Agesilaus the Spartan king was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.

We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

Life is full of horrible mistakes.

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.

I want to set an example that will never be forgotten.