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.

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.

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.

I don't understand, " says Gerald, alone in his third- class carriage, "how railway trains and magic can go on at the same time."And yet they do.

I'm able to fight for myself, I'm able to speak up and feel like I have a voice, and I can be my own advocate and my own warrior.

You live in a dangerous place when you sacrifice integrity for security.

Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.

I would let my child do whatever made their heart sing

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.

We all have to do things in this life that we don't like.

When life sucks, throw yourself into art.

It would be nice if at least 1/3 of the people in Korea think that I'm modest.

If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.