“I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.”
Margaret Atwood book Surfacing
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“Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.”
— Donna Haraway, book A Cyborg Manifesto
"A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women : The Reinvention of Nature (1991), pp.149-181.
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