Haraway, Donna

"We are all contaminated by modernity; there is no return to innocence."

"To be human is to be entangled with the nonhuman in ways we are only beginning to understand."

"The archive is not a record of what happened but a construction of what happened."

"We must learn to compose with chaos, not control it."

"The practice of writing is a practice of worldmaking and world-taking-apart."

"We are all responsible for the worlds we inhabit and the futures we create."

"We are always already cyborgs, hybrids of organism and machine, biology and technology."

"The world is not made up of atoms; it is made up of stories."

"Stay with the trouble; don't flee from the complexity of our current moment."

"We need to think with love and act with hope in dark times."

"Nature is not a mother, nor is the earth a resource to be managed."

"Responsibility lies in the relationship, not in the individual subject."

"The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion."

"Knowledge is always situated; there is no view from nowhere."

"We are not post-human; we are becoming-with other beings."

"The monster is not the problem; the problem is thinking binaries."

"Care is not a sentiment; it is a practice and a form of responsibility."

"We must learn to think in the midst of difficulties and ambiguities."

"The apparatus of bodily production is always a political apparatus."

"Feminist objectivity means taking responsibility for what we learn."

"We are kin with all the beings we encounter in this world."

"The cyborg has no origin story; it explodes the logic of genesis."

"Knowing is a matter of embodied, situated practices, not abstract vision."

"We must cultivate response-ability, the ability to respond."

"The personal is political, and the political is personal."

"Nature and culture are not opposites but entangled partners."

"Survival is insufficient; we must demand joy and justice."

"The future is not predetermined; it remains open to our interventions."

"We are all part of nature's conversations; we must listen carefully."

"Power is not something one possesses but something one does."