Mol, Annemarie

"Care practices are always already political."

"To describe something is to participate in its production."

"Normativity is performed, not prescribed."

"Bodies are not containers but relations."

"The question is never 'what is it?' but 'what does it do?'"

"Multiplicity requires us to embrace complexity rather than reduce it."

"Material reality and social construction are not opposites."

"Attending to practices means attending to how worlds are made."

"Health is not a state but a process of becoming."

"We are responsible for the worlds we help to bring into being."

"Fragmentation is sometimes more truthful than coherence."

"The laboratory is not separate from the world; it enacts a particular version of it."

"Ontology is politics by other means."

"To be is to be in relation."

"Norms are not constraints but possibilities."

"The body exceeds our attempts to categorize it."

"Knowledge is always situated and partial."

"Doing is being, and being is doing."

"Coherence is often an illusion we impose, not something we discover."

"Care cannot be rationalized without losing something essential."

"Differences within bodies are as important as differences between them."

"To study something is to change it; pure observation is impossible."

"The real and the constructed are not enemies but partners."

"Multiplicity is abundant, not impoverished."

"Normalcy is an effect of work, not a natural state."

"Responsibility means responding to the particular, not following universal rules."

"The body is a text written by many hands."

"Objects emerge through their use and their relationships."

"To be excluded is to be defined by the very norm one is excluded from."

"Complexity is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be lived."