Barbara Butcher

“When you leave here each day, surround yourself with things of beauty. Enjoy nature and art and food and music and love. Just do it, and don’t skip a day.”
― Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

“Women are less invested in being right than men are,” he said, “so they’re more inclined to keep an open mind, to reserve judgment. Or to put it more crudely, they don’t get involved in dick-waving contests with the police.” He had a point. It wasn’t the first time he declaimed female superiority. Charles Hirsch loved women, but more than that, he appreciated them. He preferred the way they thought and spoke over the more ego-driven style of men.”
― Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator