Mol, Annemarie

"The hospital is a machine for the production of norms and normalcy."

"Objects are not innocent. They carry with them histories, values, and politics."

"We are bound together through the material things we share and use together."

"The coordination of care requires coordination of bodies, technologies, and social relations."

"Food is never just food; it is always bound up with land, labor, and life."

"The modern world tends toward singularization, but other logics are always possible."

"To be a patient is to enter into a particular relationship of care and dependence."

"The body is a tool, yes, but also a subject, and these cannot be cleanly separated."

"We must attend to the work that is involved in maintaining life and order."

"Difference is not something to be tolerated but something to be engaged with and learned from."

"The logistics of care are never simple, never transparent, always contested."

"To study care is to study the world as we actually encounter it, in its complexity and mess."

"Things achieve their reality through their relations and uses, not through their essence."

"The question of who counts as a person is always a political question."

"We are always making ontological claims through our practices, usually without being aware of it."

"The body is not a resource to be exploited, but a being worthy of care and attention."

"Knowledge practices are always complicit in the worlds they describe and create."

"To refuse a single truth is not to embrace relativism, but to attend to complexity."

"The ethics of care demands that we consider all the beings involved and affected."

"Technologies are never neutral. They enact particular ways of being and knowing."

"The body is plural. It is never one thing, but always multiple, contested, and in process."

"To be responsible is to be responsive to the others we are entangled with."

"The coordination of care is the coordination of ontologies, of different ways of being and becoming."

"Normalcy is an achievement, not a natural state. It must be continually produced and maintained."

"The modern has no monopoly on good ways of living. We must remain open to other possibilities."

"To enact a disease is to enact a particular set of boundaries, definitions, and treatments."

"The question of justice cannot be separated from the question of how we order the world."

"We are always making choices about what to attend to and what to ignore, what matters and what does not."

"The body is not a thing that has agency, but an achievement of agency, always enacted in practice."

"Care is not a luxury for the privileged; it is a fundamental condition of existence for all."