Anusha Narasimhan

“I’ve always suspected that a sense of humour is a kind of parlour trick we civilized folk have taught ourselves as an insurance against disillusionment.”
― Mary Westmacott, The Rose and the Yew Tree

“Debates over vaccination, then as now, are often cast as debates over the integrity of science, though they could just as easily be understood as conversations about power.”
― Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation

“We do not tend to be afraid of the things that are most likely to harm us. We drive around in cars, a lot. We drink alcohol, we ride bicycles, we sit too much. And we harbor anxiety about things that, statistically speaking, pose us little danger. We fear sharks, while mosquitoes are, in terms of sheer numbers of lives lost, probably the most dangerous creature on earth.”
― Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation

“Purity, especially bodily purity, is the seemingly innocent concept behind a number of the most sinister social actions of the past century.”
― Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation