Mol, Annemarie

"Care is the everyday work of maintaining the livability of the world."

"The question of what is real is also a question of what is valued."

"We are always in the middle, always in medias res, always responsible."

"The good is not found, but made, through careful attention and relational work."

"Bodies are not closed systems, but are open to the world and to others."

"To live is to be entangled in relations of care and responsibility."

"Knowledge is not about achieving a view from nowhere, but about being responsibly somewhere."

"We are not free from constraints, but free to enact ourselves within them creatively."

"The real is always in the making, achieved through ongoing practices and performances."

"The body is not a thing, but a doing. It is an achievement, an accomplishment, a process."

"We are never dealing with facts pure and simple. Facts are always entangled with interpretation."

"Disease is not something that happens to a passive body, but an active process of being and becoming."

"To care is to enact a relationship. Care is what ties us together in webs of interdependence."

"Things do not have essences independent of the relations they enter into. They are made in practice."

"Multiplicity is not a failure of singularity, but a success in its own right."

"We perform our realities into being through the things we do and the choices we make."

"The world is not given; it is made. And we are always implicated in its making."

"Bodies matter because they do things, not because they are things."

"Science is not the discovery of pre-existing facts, but the enactment of realities."

"To study something is to be drawn into the world it creates and sustains."

"Ontology is not abstract philosophy; it is practical. It is about how we live together."

"Difference and diversity are not obstacles to overcome but realities to navigate and appreciate."

"The body cannot be separated from its environment and relations. It is always already entangled."

"Good care requires attending to the messy, complex realities of actual situations."

"We are always choosing between different ways of ordering the world, even when we do not realize it."

"Knowledge is not a mirror of reality, but an intervention in it."

"The question is not whether something is true, but what it does and what it enables."

"Responsibility comes from being implicated in the world and its ongoing construction."

"Performance is not something added to an essence; performance is how things come to be."

"To enact a world is to exclude certain possibilities while opening others."