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

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.

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.

Life […] is scientific, that’s what it is.

Puttering is really a time to be alone, to dream, to get in touch with yourself...To putter is to discover.

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me

I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Being driven is not the same as being passionate. Passion is a love for the journey. Drive is a need to reach the destination.

I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.

Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.