If Our Bodies Could Talk Quotes

“The fundamental construct of self and other is becoming untenable.”
― James Hamblin, If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body

“preventable illness influences and is influenced by education, employment, the environment, and the economy.”
― James Hamblin, If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body

“Forming an Adam’s apple requires testosterone, and that usually means functioning testicles. When we look up at a billboard in Times Square featuring a man with a large Adam’s apple, we are essentially being shown a demonstration of testicular aptitude. “Buy this product,” the ad is saying, “and you’ll have good testicles.”
― James Hamblin, If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body

“people don’t like it when you pretend you are going to spray it on them.”
― James Hamblin, If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body

“there was then, as now, an excess of males.”
― James Hamblin, If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body

“this is the behavior of people with no recourse but to burn it all down.”
― James Hamblin, If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body

“The region of Westmont in South L.A. has a life expectancy ten years lower than across town in Culver City.”
― James Hamblin, If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body

“A successful man is emotionally restrained, keeping things close to the vest, defending your position, being in control, etcetera. If your identity is so wrapped around being that way that it prevents you from doing other things—connecting, disclosing, showing vulnerability, giving up control—you aren’t developing those skills. I think guys need extra attention to this because they are working against the societally defined Male Code.”
― James Hamblin, If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body

“Just because we don’t know everything doesn’t mean that we know nothing.”
― James Hamblin, If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body

“These are the secrets you learn only in clown school.”
― James Hamblin, If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body

“Unlike melatonin pills, Sprayable Sleep is supposed to keep you asleep, as the hormone gradually percolates through your skin over the course of the night. I tried it for a couple weeks, and I did sleep, but it was tough to distinguish its effect. I sleep most nights. That said, I can confirm that it didn’t burn my skin. Also, people don’t like it when you pretend you are going to spray it on them.”
― James Hamblin, If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body

“gelastic”
― James Hamblin, If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body

“Kratingdaeng”
― James Hamblin, If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body

“misophonia”
― James Hamblin, If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body