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Top 25 Donna J. Haraway Quotes (2025 Update)

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion.”

1. “The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion.”

— Donna J. Haraway

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.”

2. “It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.”

— Donna J. Haraway

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges.”

3. “Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges.”

— Donna J. Haraway

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.”

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

— Donna J. Haraway

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters.”

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

— Donna J. Haraway

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “I’d rather be a Cyborg than a Goddess.”

7. “I’d rather be a Cyborg than a Goddess.”

— Donna J. Haraway

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “Make Kin Not Babies.”

8. “Make Kin Not Babies.”

— Donna J. Haraway

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.”

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

— Donna J. Haraway

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.”

11. “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

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.”

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

— Donna J. Haraway

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Donna J. Haraway

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?”

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

— Donna J. Haraway

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.”

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

— Donna J. Haraway

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “First, promiscuously plucking out fibers in clotted and dense events and practices, I try to follow the threads where they lead in order to track them and find their tangles and patterns crucial for staying with the trouble in real and particular places and times.”

16. “First, promiscuously plucking out fibers in clotted and dense events and practices, I try to follow the threads where they lead in order to track them and find their tangles and patterns crucial for staying with the trouble in real and particular places and times.”

— Donna J. Haraway

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent response to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places.”

17. “Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent response to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places.”

— Donna J. Haraway

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “Grammar is politics by other means.”

18. “Grammar is politics by other means.”

— Donna J. Haraway

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “Myth and tool mutually constitute each other.”

21. “Myth and tool mutually constitute each other.”

— Donna J. Haraway

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “Our bodies, with the old genetic transmission, have not kept pace with the new language-produced cultural transmission of technology. So now, when social control breaks down, we must expect to see pathological destruction.”

22. “Our bodies, with the old genetic transmission, have not kept pace with the new language-produced cultural transmission of technology. So now, when social control breaks down, we must expect to see pathological destruction.”

— Donna J. Haraway

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.”

23. “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

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also the awful apocalyptic telos of the ‘West’s’ escalating dominations of abstract individuation, an ultimate self untied at last from all dependency, a man in space.”

24. “In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also the awful apocalyptic telos of the ‘West’s’ escalating dominations of abstract individuation, an ultimate self untied at last from all dependency, a man in space.”

— Donna J. Haraway

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “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.”

25. “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

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “Cyborgs are not reverent; they do not re-member the cosmos. They are wary of holism, but needy for connection- they seem to have a natural feel for united front politics, but without the vanguard party. The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not to mention state socialism. But illegitimate offspring are often exceedingly unfaithful to their origins.”

26. “Cyborgs are not reverent; they do not re-member the cosmos. They are wary of holism, but needy for connection- they seem to have a natural feel for united front politics, but without the vanguard party. The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not to mention state socialism. But illegitimate offspring are often exceedingly unfaithful to their origins.”

— Donna J. Haraway

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously.”

27. “Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously.”

— Donna J. Haraway

Donna J. Haraway Quote: “Go outside English, and the wild multiplies.”

28. “Go outside English, and the wild multiplies.”

— Donna J. Haraway

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