Haraway, Donna

"We are all contaminated by the systems of power we inhabit; purity is impossible."

"The cyborg does not long for a wholeness that was never possible."

"Becoming-with is a practice of joint world-making, not a sentimental gesture."

"We must learn to live as if the future matters, even in catastrophic times."

"The boundary between human and animal is drawn, not given."

"Technology is neither salvation nor damnation; it is a site of contest and reconstruction."

"Care is a practice that acknowledges our mutual vulnerability and interdependence."

"The archive is a practice of memory that is always selective and interested."

"We must resist the temptation to speak for others and instead learn to listen."

"The naturalization of sexual difference serves patriarchal interests, not natural law."

"Reproduction is not a private matter but a fundamentally political one."

"We are all cyborgs now; the question is what kinds of cyborgs we want to become."

"The promise of the cyborg is that it escapes the trap of essence."

"To think otherwise is to risk being called mad, but madness can be generative."

"We must develop an ethics of flourishing that includes the more-than-human world."

"The practice of speculation is not escapism but a political act of world-making."

"Labor is always material and embodied; there is no disembodied knowledge."

"We must learn to live with the paradoxes and contradictions of our times."

"The archive testifies to what happened, but also to what was erased or forgotten."

"To be response-able is to be able to respond, which requires both capacity and care."

"We are kin to all the beings with whom we share the earth, not masters of them."

"The future belongs to those who can learn to think and feel in new ways."

"Humility requires acknowledging the limits of our knowledge and our perspective."

"We must cultivate what I call 'response-ability,' the ability to respond to others."

"The practice of care is not about charity but about recognizing mutual dependence."

"To live well in catastrophic times requires cultivating small practices of flourishing."

"We are all always already implicated in the violence we seek to resist."

"The future is not open but constrained by the histories we inherit."

"We must learn to think with what I call 'propositions,' not propositions that assert truth."

"The practice of storytelling is a way of taking responsibility for the worlds we make."