Donna Haraway quotes

Donna Haraway is an American scholar and feminist theorist known for her influential work in the fields of science and technology studies, especially feminist theory. Best known for her essay "A Cyborg Manifesto," she challenges traditional ideas about gender, identity, and the relationship between humans and technology. She continues to inspire debates about the future of science, feminism, and society. Here are 12 of her 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.

Donna Haraway

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

Donna Haraway

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 Haraway

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

Donna Haraway

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 Haraway

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 Haraway

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

Donna Haraway

Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges.

Donna Haraway

I'd rather be a cyborg than a goddess.

Donna Haraway

All of reality in late capitalist culture lusts to become an image for its own security.

Donna Haraway