“There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.”
Judith Butler
“Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate”
William Arthur Ward
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
Oscar Wilde
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.”
Confucius
“I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.”
Mae West
“Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength”
Eric Hoffer
“It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
