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

Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing is about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as other...

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

Myth and tool mutually constitute each other.

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

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

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.