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Joan Tronto

Joan Tronto is an American political theorist known for her influential work on care ethics and democratic theory. Her writing argues that care is a central human activity that sustains life and society.

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Quotes by Joan Tronto

Care is an activity that includes everything we do to maintain, contain, and repair our world so that we can live in it as well as possible. — Joan Tronto

Care as the Work of Sustaining Our World

Joan Tronto expands care far beyond private kindness or domestic duty. In this quote, care becomes a practical, collective activity that includes whatever people do to maintain, support, and repair the conditions of life...

Created on: 4/23/2026