Mol, Annemarie

"To be responsible is to respond, endlessly, to the specificities of situations."

"Knowledge is not about stepping back from the world, but about stepping into it more carefully."

"The good life is not a life without problems, but a life well-tended."

"We are always already entangled in the making of the real."

"To be modern is not to escape nature, but to manage it in particular ways."

"The strength of weak ties is that they connect us to new possibilities."

"We do not choose between nature and culture, but live in their ongoing entanglement."

"To question normality is to open up space for other ways of being."

"Care is the work of keeping the world livable, moment by moment."

"Facts are achievements, not declarations. They require work to maintain."

"The good is not given; it is performed into being through relations of care."

"To be sick is not simply to have a disease, but to be positioned in particular ways by medical systems."

"We are not at home in the world; we make homes through endless tending."

"The future is not determined, but open to multiple possibilities."

"To speak is to act, to perform, to enact a version of reality."

"We live in a world of partial connections, not total explanations."

"The body is not a surface on which diseases appear, but an achievement of medical practice."

"To be ethical is to be attentive to the others who constitute us."

"Knowledge is a craft, requiring skill, care, and attention to detail."

"The real is not behind appearances, but achieved through practices of making and doing."

"We are responsible not for controlling the world, but for responding to it."

"Ontology is politics. What we say things are matters for how they can be treated."

"The good is not universal, but always particular, always situated, always relational."

"To live is to be entangled in the messy materials of the world."

"We make reality through our classifications, measurements, and modes of attention."

"The body is a co-production, achieved through medical, social, and personal practices."

"To care is to be vulnerable, to be open to the needs of others."

"Knowledge is not about achieving certainty, but about learning to live with uncertainty."

"We are always in the middle of things, never at a safe distance."

"The world is brought into being through our ongoing engagements with it."