Performatively Quotes

#1. 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.

Judith Butler

#2. The form is so malleable and can do so many things.

Jess Walter

#3. The BBC did a survey of the top 50 things to do before we die. Not while we're still alive, before we die.

Bill Bailey

#4. I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell.

Stephen Colbert

#5. Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure. I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself, and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

Roxane Gay

#6. And they all died happily ever after.
A very happy ending, the littlest one said.

Ali Smith

#7. Like a feather in the air,Like a leaf in the sea,I surrender to thee,I surrender to thee.-RVM

R.v.m.

#8. I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

Clare Boothe Luce