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....We would do well to listen to the female body because if the environment is poor, and our intuition has been silenced and shamed, you better believe her body is going to be the fail-safe, the bell that won't unring. The invader is not long since gone and in medicine they will continue to miss the point and exacerbate the problem to catastrophic effect, if they think they're only work is too silence the bell."

"Women have been correctly warning everyone the whole time and the female body is totally correct in doing this. We do not want a highly antigenic inflamed world. ...

...A change attributed to entirely to the things we are talking about here; a sugar filled diet, a sedentary life, growing isolation, too many antibiotics, too many chemicals, less and less sleep and constant stress. All those red button pushers are part of the fabric of our normal culture and are only increasing.

"the world health organization now cautions that chronic illness is a greater threat to developing nations than are old expected foes like malaria and cholera. ....

but if we look at the causes; rape, abuse, poor diet, no sleep, high stress, bad relationships, and a toxic environment, her response is exactly the right response. Those are bad things that need to be eliminated, avoided or changed. Those bad things deserve a response not a blind eye.'

"when that stress bell is rung to loudly or too many times without being dealt with, it won't unring and we have to consider that this is on purpose. Our bodies are smart, a woman may be responding negatively with symptoms and PTSD, yes, ....

"but in the end the roots of all these problems, not enough time to listen, no emphasis on healthy behaviors and no robust systems to help patients with behavioral changes come back to the same problem, they are not widely profitable. Virtually every problem in the health system can be understood by following the money."

"it is considered an indulgence to asses the patient's personal and emotional landscape, especially with extras like empathy and a sense of connection or concern. A quick diagnose or prescription is more expedient"

"that maybe, given the right set of peculiar, freakish, probably unrepeatable circumstances, it's not what you like but what you're like that's important."

"And there is such a thing as the look of love-Dusty didn't lead us up the garden path entirely-its just that the look of love isn't what I expected it to be. It's not huge eyes almost bursting with longing situated somewhere in the middle of a double bed with the covers turned down invitingly; its just as likely to be the look of benevolent indulgence that a mother gives a toddler, or a look of amused exasperation"

"You just .. you just don't do anything. You get lost in your head, and sit around thinking instead of getting on with something, and most of the time you think rubbish. You always seem to miss what's really happening."

"my relationship was what gave me my sense of location. And if you lose your sense of location, you get homesick."

"I realize that all Charlie has done is rephrase my own feelings about my genius for being normal; maybe that particular talent - my only one, as it happens - was overrated anyway."

"It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pine into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was there, though, and now I know."

"It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pine into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was there, though, and now I know."

"If someone wanted to know how to get off with seventeen women, or more, no less, that's what I'd tell them: ask questions. It works precisely because that isn't how you're supposed to do it, if you listen to the collective male wisdom. There are still enough of the old-style, big-mouthed, self-opinionated egomaniacs around to make someone like me appear refreshingly different."

"I can see it now. I can see everything once it's already happened - I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand."

"It's easy enough to be nice to your mates. You can buy them a drink, make them a tape, ring them up to see if they're OK ... there are any number of quick and painless methods of turning yourself into a Good Bloke. When it comes to girlfriends, though, its much trickier to be consistently honorable."

"They're as close to being mad as makes no difference."

"You can see this everywhere you go: young, middle-class people whose lives are beginning to disappoint them making too much noise in restaurants and clubs and wine bars. 'Look at me! I'm not as boring as you think I am! I know how to have fun!' Tragic. I'm glad I learned to stay home and sulk."

"I have read books like The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Love in the Time of Cholera, and understood them, I think (they were about girls, right?), but I don't like them very much"

"Everything happened so fast. I had kind of hoped that my adulthood would be long and meaty and instructive, but it all took place in those two years"

"it was as if breasts were little pieces of property that had been unlawfully annexed by the opposite sex - they were rightfully ours and we wanted them back."

"those places are reserved for the kind of humiliations and heartbreaks that you're' just not capable of delivering. That probably sounds crueler than it is meant to but the is that we're too old to make each other miserable, and that's a good thing, not a bad thing"

“Creativity is the gateway between the past and the future.”

“You’ve no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they’re not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn’t give you that right. Having more weapons doesn’t give you that right.”

“If the people who were supposed to protect you played so fast and loose with your life ... then how did you survive? Not by trusting them, that was for sure. And if you could t trust them, who could you trust? All bets were off.”

“The issue with thinking about ‘passing’ the usual way is that it suggests that fixed meaning of self is possible, that identity comes in tidy categories, that sex is legible, that faith is a binary state, and that any of these things can be made separate from the others.”

“Olive’s story serves as a parable for the violence of the American project, the brutal insistence on dividing the world between ‘white’ and ‘other’, between ‘civilization’ and ‘savagery’, that underpinned this country’s formation. It’s not only violent to police these kinds of binaries - it’s impossible.”

“Mortality was the ritual’s subtext, not only just because it lingered as a possible outcome but because the inscription’s ‘permanence’ is undermined by its canvas.” [on tattooing]