Sandra Bartky quotes:

Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.

The disciplinary power that inscribes femininity in the female body is everywhere and it is nowhere; the disciplinarian is everyone and yet no one in particular.

We are born male or female, but not masculine or feminine.

Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.

Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.