Quotes by Judith Butler

• It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.
• I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.
• There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
• 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.
• Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.
• Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.
• I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.