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“Depression is often compared to diabetes-- in other words, it's not your fault if you get it, and you'll be fine if you just take care of it. Schizophrenia, on the other hand, is compared to Alzheimer's-- it's still not your fault if you get it, but there's no fixing it and though you may not intend to be a burden, you'll still be one until you die.”
― Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

“A diagnosis is comforting because it provides a framework—a community, a lineage—and, if luck is afoot, a treatment or cure. A diagnosis says that I am crazy, but in a particular way: one that has been experienced and recorded not just in modern times,”
― Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

“Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“This must be the most important factor in your choice of a life partner," he told Ada. "Who will most patiently and enthusiastically support your ambitions?”
― Liz Moore, The Unseen World