Judith Butler Quotes

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact.