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“If all the dew were diamonds...we would be very rich. We would be drunk all our lives.”
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“The entire time I was in the camp it was as if I had a double personality. My real self seemed to be observing what was happening to my physical self.”
― Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
― Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
“She wondered if she made them uncomfortable. She was a big woman, and made no attempt at being pretty. Her hair was short and often uncombed, and she didn't bother with makeup. She was bitterly comfortable inside her own body, in a way women often weren't, and sometimes that unsettled people.”
― The Unmothers
― The Unmothers
“Yet although this particular delusion, at least in the form of a large-scale public enterprise, has vanished from the western world, the urge to hunt 'witches' has done nothing of the kind. It has been revived on a colossal scale by replacing the medieval idea of malefic witchcraft by pseudo-scientific concepts like 'race' and 'nationality,' and by substituting for theological dissension, a whole complex of warring ideologies. Accordingly, the story of 1692 is of far more than antiquarian interest: it is an allegory of our times. One would like to believe that leaders of the modern world can in the end deal with delusion as sanely and courageously as the men of old Massachusetts dealt with theirs.”
― The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials
― The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials
“You must be your own advocate... You can't rely solely on your doctors or you family or anyone else; you have to stay on top of your own care, no matter how sick or exhausted you feel. Learn everything you can about your disease and your diagnosis, locate the very best doctors, find out exactly what drugs and treatments your doctors are giving you and what they're supposed to do, never stop researching and asking questions, and check, check, check what the doctors tell you-get second and third opinions. All of this is up to you because ultimately no one else-not your family members who love you, or your doctors, who want you to survive-is responsible for your health. You need a support team, of course, but in the end, you run this race on your own.”
― The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
― The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
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