Kathi Woe

“There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.”
― Samuel Shem, The House of God

“I would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Divinity School Address

“Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality