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.

Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges

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

A blind man's world is bounded by the limits of his touch

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.

I always wore the highest heels possible, because the other women on the show were tall.

Sometimes it's necessary to do wrong. Sometimes it's the only way to make things right.

Connection to the music and the history was very powerful to me. I think that's what I feel the most blessed about.

I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

The spirit of God has the habit of taking the words of Jesus out of their scriptural setting and putting them into the setting of our personal lives.

A lot of people pass through the thinking I'm a guru and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just a witness. I was just a witness.