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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.
Judith Butler
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Judith Butler
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 24
Art Theorist
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University Teacher
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Cleveland
Ohio
Judith P. Butler
Judith Pamela Butler
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The life doesn't simply get erased. It gets imprinted and remembered.
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Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.
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I must say, I feel the reception of my work is none of my business.
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When I was young there were lesbians who said Oh, I will free myself of all norms of masculinity, all norms of heterosexuality . And then, they ended up in very complex relationships that were maybe full of heterosexual power dynamics or full of lesbian forms of masculinity and they became very confused.
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We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
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Maybe one of the jobs of theory or philosophy is to elevate principles that seem impossible, or that have the status of the impossible, to stand by them and will them, even when it looks highly unlikely that they'll ever be realised. But that's ok, it's a service.
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Let me say one thing to clarify my position. I think we can take distance from norm but I think we are also mired in norm, empêtrés, I think you say in French. And I think the choices we can make are only in a certain struggle with the norms out of which we're constituted.
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It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.
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People who expect enmity to suddenly convert into love are probably using the wrong model.
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