Donna Haraway. Foreword to "The Cyborg Handbook"
 "The term 'cyborg' was coined by Manfred E. Clynes and Nathan S. Kline (1960) to refer to the enhanced man who could survive in extra-terrestrial environments. They imagined the cyborgian man-machine hybrid would be needed in the next great technohumanist challenge--space flight."

Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto" Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century"
 "A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. Social reality is lived social relations, our most important political construction, a world-changing fiction."

Gray, Mentor, and Figueroa-Sarriera in The Cyborg Handbook
 Cyborgs are not just in SF. You don't have to be the Terminator, Chief Engineer Geordi LaForge of ST:TNG, or Steve Austen in The Six-Million Dollar Man: "There are many actual cyborgs among us in society. Anyone with an artificial organ, limb or supplement (like pacemaker), anyone reprogrammed to resist disease (immunized) or drugged to think/behave/feel better (psychopharmocology) is technically a cyborg. The range of these intimate human machine relationships is mind-boggling. It's not just Robocop, it is our grandmother with a pacemaker. Not just Geordi but also our colleague with the myloelectric prosthetic arm. Not just the cyberwarriors of a hundred militaristic science fiction stories, but arguably one whos e immune system has been programmed through vaccination to recognize and kill the polio virus. Not just the fighter-bomber pilot in the state-of-the-art cockpit who can target enemies with the eyes, fire missiles with a word, and use computers to monitor his or her own body and to create a disembodied 'God's Eye' view of the battle, but also the potentially billions of humans yet unborn who will be the products of genetic engineering."

Donna Haraway. Foreword to "The Cyborg Handbook"
 "Whatever else it is, the cyborg point of view is always about communication, infection, gender, genre, species, intercourse, information, and semiology."

Donna Haraway. Foreword to "The Cyborg Handbook"
 "I used the cyborg as a blasphemous anti-racist feminist figure reshaped for science-studies analyses and feminist theory alike."

Haraway on Fractured Identities:"A Cyborg Manifesto"
 "There is nothing about being 'female' that naturally binds women. There is not even such a state as 'being' female, itself a highly complex category constructed in contested sexual scientific discourses and other social practices. Gender, race, or class consciousness is an achievement forced on us by the terrible historical experience of the contradictory social realities of patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism."

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