Lori

“Religion provides answers to unanswerable questions. It cannot usually pull people out of depression; indeed,”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon

“Women belong in all places where... F*** it! Women belong. Period.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“You say that you really don’t want to get sick again. But wellness is still, in this area, associated not with achieving control of your problem, but with discontinuation of medication: “Well, I sure hope you get off sometime soon,” they say.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon

“When I said that I had a history of mental illness, I was told that in that case I could not well expect anyone to take my views on these things seriously. “I’m a trained professional and I’m here to help you,” the doctor said. When I said that I was an experienced patient and knew that what she was doing was in fact injurious to me, she told me that I had not been to medical school and would just have to proceed according to what she judged an appropriate protocol.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon