Judith Butler Quotes

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.

I have always fought against being gender specific. I just don't like being identified as female: I'm a person.

Any kind of gender expression is performance for me, regardless of where it is on the spectrum.

the term 'androgyny' ... defines a condition under which the characteristics of the sexes, and the human impulses expressed by men and women, are not rigidly assigned. Androgyny seeks to liberate the individual from the confines of the appropriate.

It seems to me that "Gender trouble" will always be important to try and open up our ideas of what gender is. So, I don't know if it's revolutionary, but maybe it still has something to say to those issues.

We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields which overlap into androgyny or different kinds of sexual desires. But because we live in a Western, patriarchal world, we have very little chance of exploring these gender possibilities.

I was a tomboy as a kid - I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy - and up until I was about six, I had my own very fluid ideas of gender in that I believed that, somehow, an individual could choose whether or not s/he wanted to be a boy or a girl.

Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.

I have always believed that we all have male and female within us.

I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do.

I believe gender is a spectrum, and I fall somewhere between Channing Tatum and Winnie the Pooh.

I think of my gender as a part of my complex humanity.

I was really raised in a gender-neutral household. I always knew I was a girl, but it never occurred to me that there was a limitation.

We are on the forefront of a revolution in which identity and expression will take priority over the labels assigned to us at birth; in which self-identification will take priority over perception; in which gender will fall away entirely.

I don't know what I am if I'm not a woman.

I do say gender fluid, because I experience my gender identity as being fluid because it's on a spectrum.

Bodies have a sex, but gender is a thing we made up, like your star sign or nationality. It doesn't really say anything about who you are. The destruction of gender binary would free everybody.

In an ideal world, we would be able to just swap characters' genders around because I don't ever wake up in the morning and think to myself, 'Oh I am such a woman today,' because that is just so ridiculous.

I'm really proud that MTV has joined the conversation about breaking down binaries.

I feel like there's no such thing as gender.

Masculinity involves feminine qualities, and femininity involves masculine qualities.

Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other.