The Body Is a Doorway Quotes

“Everything in my life, from flat tires to late appointments, is conspiring to make sure I am perfectly on time for another moment of contact. Not on time for human events, but for those truly important convergences between species.”
― Sophie Strand, The Body Is a Doorway: A Memoir: A Journey Beyond Healing, Hope, and the Human

“I am not built by birthdays or promotions. I am made by moments of interspecies impact.”
― Sophie Strand, The Body Is a Doorway: A Memoir: A Journey Beyond Healing, Hope, and the Human

“We pretend this Earth is not our own body, extended. Just like I retreated into my head when I experienced pain, hovering like a balloon above my body, so has our culture retreated into the notion of human exceptionalism to avoid feeling the suffering it has inflicted on its own larger body.”
― Sophie Strand, The Body Is a Doorway: A Memoir: A Journey Beyond Healing, Hope, and the Human

“When we override our fear, we don’t just override our bodies. We override our ability to read and respond to our environments and the messages they are sending us as smells, sounds, and textures.”
― Sophie Strand, The Body Is a Doorway: A Memoir: A Journey Beyond Healing, Hope, and the Human

“Health belongs to an individual. Health is both a possession and an external reflection of someone’s personal achievements or moral failings. Every individual is personally responsible for the ways in which their body changes, misbehaves, and deviates from the norm. The norm is usually measured against white bodies. Young bodies. European bodies. Male bodies.”
― Sophie Strand, The Body Is a Doorway: A Memoir: A Journey Beyond Healing, Hope, and the Human