If we think about sexual life for a gender life, it seems to me that we have to allow for certain kinds of changes or certain kinds of ways of reconceptualizing ourselves.

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

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

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

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.

We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones.

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.

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

As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently.

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

Self love is an oceanand your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill overinto the lives of the peopleyou hold dear. But you must come first.

So if everything goes off great, then it being a triple threat match will make it even more exciting instead of a singles match.

Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.

God blesses us so that we might bless others!

He's had a lovely career for the talent he's got.

I'll throw ya gang-sign up, and then I'll spit on my hand.

The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.

It is difficult to judge the past by the criteria of the present.

I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.

When people ask me what really changed my life, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded on myself.