If we are looking for signs of democratization, then surely we are looking as well for forms of living on equal terms in and among cultural differences.

"Gender trouble" is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it's sweet. I mean people are really kind about it but it's like a former love affair you had and you're done.

We're trying to divide groups or decide that some of them are truly victims and some of them are truly aggressors.

Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.

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

We have to find a way of understanding how one category of sex can be "assigned" from both and another sense of sex can lead us to resist and reject that sex assignment. How do we understand that second sense of sex? It is not the same as the first - it is not an assignment that others give us. But maybe it is an assignment we give ourselves? If so, do we not need a world of others, linguistic practices, social institutions, and political imaginaries in order to move forward to claim precisely those categories we require, and to reject those that work against us?

I think there is no one answer. It is still a struggle, there are tensions and I'm sure there are many people who would like to see these questions laid to rest or cease to be posed altogether.