Donna J. Haraway Quotes

Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade.

We have all been injured, profoundly. We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream of the hope for a monstrous world without gender.

A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.

Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?

I’d rather be a cyborg than a goddess.

The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.

The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.

By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges

Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters.

Grammar is politics by other means.

Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.

Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.

Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously.

Myth and tool mutually constitute each other.