"Judith Butler. Israel/Palestine and the Paradoxes of Academic Freedom in Radical Philosophy"

“A phenomenon that gave rise to my first critical insight into the subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. Hence, I concluded that trouble is inevitable and the task, how best to make it, what best way to be in it.”

“Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.”

“If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called ‘sex’ is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.”

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

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

“I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality. I was never against the category of men.”