Donna Haraway Quotes

#1. She had made him into a kind of husband,her own son.

David Vann

#2. From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.

Donna J. Haraway

#3. 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.

Donna J. Haraway

#4. Myth and tool mutually constitute each other.

Donna J. Haraway

#5. But it's the hope of something better that keeps us going

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

Donna J. Haraway

#7. All readings are also mis-readings, re-readings, partial readings, imposed readings, and imagined readings of a text that is originally and finally never simply there. Just as the world is originally fallen apart, the text is always already enmeshed in contending practices and hopes.

Donna J. Haraway

#8. What's so great about being stuck in a dust cloud?

Douglas Adams

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

Donna J. Haraway

#10. I am making an argument for the cyborg as a fiction mapping our social and bodily reality and as an imaginative resource suggesting some very fruitful couplings. Michael Foucault's biopolitics is a flaccid premonition of cyborg politics, a very open field.

Donna J. Haraway

#11. It is not just that science and technology are possible means of great human satisfaction, as well as a matrix of complex dominations. Cyborg imagery can suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves.

Donna J. Haraway

#12. Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously.

Donna J. Haraway

#13. Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.

Wendell Berry

#14. The cyborg is a creature in a post-gender world; it has no truck with bisexuality, pre-oedipal symbiosis, unalienated labour, or other seductions to organic wholeness through a final appropriation of all the powers of the parts into a higher unity.

Donna J. Haraway

#15. pssst . . .your soul is calling you to freedom love and play!

Jan Porter

#16. I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world ...

Frederic Chopin

#17. Risk is the most intense road.

Gustavo Cerati

#18. I'd rather be a Cyborg than a Goddess

Donna J. Haraway

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

Donna J. Haraway

#20. 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.

Donna J. Haraway

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

Donna J. Haraway

#22. Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges

Donna J. Haraway

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

Donna J. Haraway

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

Donna J. Haraway

#25. Grammar is politics by other means.

Donna J. Haraway

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

Donna J. Haraway

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

Donna J. Haraway