Sarah Jensen
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My life purpose has always been to make Mom happy, to be who she wants me to be. So without Mom, who am I supposed to be now?
“But I came to realize that none of us leave this life unscathed. Each of us experiences loss, grief, disappointment. In fact, sometimes our most painful moments and trying times turn out to be the opportunities that bring us more fully to ourselves. That life is best lived when you open yourself up to it, all of it.”
― The Tobacco Wives
― The Tobacco Wives
“In 2016 a clinical study was performed using antibodies that were designed to be attracted to cancerous cells in the bladder. As the antibodies bound specifically to the cancer cells, they took along the ricin A chain. Like a Trojan horse, the cancer let the antibody-ricin complex inside its cells, where the ricin went on to kill the tumor. The realization of Ehrlich’s magic bullet now seems a real possibility. Thus cutting-edge therapeutic uses of ricin would seem to rehabilitate the reputation of even the deadliest of substances.”
― A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
― A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
“Knowledge is power, she had argued. And conversely, the withholding of knowledge is an act of oppression.”
― The Tobacco Wives
― The Tobacco Wives
“There’s no more powerful way to silence someone than to call them crazy.”
― The Woman They Could Not Silence
― The Woman They Could Not Silence
“From 1952 to 1989, Rocky Flats manufactures more than seventy thousand plutonium triggers, at a cost of nearly $4 million apiece. Each one contains enough breathable particles of plutonium to kill every person on earth.”
― Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
― Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
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