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People who expect enmity to suddenly convert into love are probably using the wrong model.

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Judith Butler
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 24
Art Theorist
Feminist
Journalist
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Philosopher
Sociologist
University Teacher
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Judith P. Butler
Judith Pamela Butler
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Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.
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I must say, I feel the reception of my work is none of my business.
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I want to say that the way in which we understand gender actually changes the way we live gender.
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To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.
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Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No matter whether these relationships are very proximate or very distant, there is no entitlement to expunge a population or to demean its basic humanity.
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