had learned that my mother would do just about anything to contend with the perceived slights of the world. She would even cause me pain.
“Knowledge is power, she had argued. And conversely, the withholding of knowledge is an act of oppression.”
― The Tobacco Wives
― The Tobacco Wives
“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
“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
“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
“Unruly women are always witches, no matter what century we’re in.”
― The Woman They Could Not Silence
― The Woman They Could Not Silence
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