Steffanie Strathdee > Quotes

“It's no joke that hospitals are now often referred to as the worst place to get well. Superbugs are looking out the hospital windows, licking their chops at the feast that awaits them in this era of superbugs without borders.”
― Steffanie Strathdee, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir

“A wise person once said, "The most important two days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you find out why.”
― Steffanie Strathdee, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir

“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise. —Albert Camus, The Plague”
― Steffanie Strathdee, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir

“Mayhem in the body expresses itself in the mind.”
― Steffanie Strathdee, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir