Relationships Quotes

Connection, conflict, and everything in between. What our bonds with others teach us about ourselves.

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"We are constituted through our relations with others and the world."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Entanglement is not a state of being but a way of being."
Barad, Karen
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"Relationships precede entities."
Barad, Karen
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"The other is always already part of me."
Barad, Karen
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"Touching and being touched constitute the world."
Barad, Karen
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"Mutual constitution is the fundamental condition of existence."
Barad, Karen
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"We are embedded in networks of relationships that define our becoming."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Affective relations are the basis of our political community."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"We are all contaminated by our relations with otherness."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Affective attachment is the basis of political commitment."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"The posthuman subject is radically relational and interdependent."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"We are bound together in networks of interdependence that exceed our ability to fully comprehend."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"Affect circulates between us, creating bonds and possibilities we do not fully control."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"We must learn to trace the affective genealogies that connect us across time and space."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"Affect is what binds us together in ways that language cannot capture."
Puar, Jasbir
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"Kinship is not a biological given but a political formation."
Puar, Jasbir
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"We are bound together by affective ties that exceed language."
Puar, Jasbir
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"We are all entangled in relations of power and possibility."
Puar, Jasbir
"It is not the want of affection, but a want of power to express it, which often causes disappointment."
Charles Darwin
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"We move through the world leaving traces; they move through us too."
Ahmed, Sara
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"We find ourselves in the reflection of those who truly see us."
Ahmed, Sara
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"We are in relationship with everything, whether we acknowledge it or not."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Cats are not the other to whom we are responsible."
Haraway, Donna
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"Kinship is not about blood; it is about power relations."
Haraway, Donna
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"We are entangled with all of our relations."
Haraway, Donna
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"We are not individuals; we are dividuals, always composed of others."
Haraway, Donna
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"We are all string figures tied together in a vast web of relations."
Haraway, Donna
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"We must take seriously our kinship with all living beings."
Haraway, Donna
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"The boundaries between self and other are more permeable than we assume."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Affect circulates; it moves between bodies, generating new possibilities."
Muñoz, José Esteban