Judith Butler Identity Quotations

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

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.

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?

Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.