You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.

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.

Why don't I just go against all reason, ignore past experiences and fall in love with you?

I am fearless because I know the power of my love and beauty of my soul.

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

Unless you invest in people, you are not going to see growth in the long term, the medium term, and maybe even the short term.

We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.

Red cattle," Annabeth said. "The cattle of the sun." "What?" I [Percy] asked. "They're sacred to Apollo." "Holy cows?

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?

Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.