Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

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.

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.

We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

All the makeup in this world can never cover up an empty brain.

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

That which is imagined can never be lost.

The world is a magnificent place. What are you going to do with it?

I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left unturned in terms of trying to protect school children.

A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.

If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.

I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee.

The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief.

Necessity, mother of invention.