“Slowly, it dawned on me that nothing was more important than stopping violence toward women—that the desecration of women indicated the failure of human beings to honor and protect life”
― The Vagina Monologues
― The Vagina Monologues
“I have always been obsessed with naming things. If I could name them, I could know them. If I could name them, I could tame them. They could be my friends.”
― The Vagina Monologues
― The Vagina Monologues
“Your chances of avoiding the nursing home are directly related to the number of children you have,”
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“The only way death is not meaningless is to see yourself as part of something greater: a family, a community, a society.”
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“I still remember the moment when my gaze fell upon the mutilated face of a young woman, her features slashed through with a bayonet. Soundlessly, and without fuss, some tender thing deep inside me broke. Something that, until then, I hadn't realised was there.”
― Human Acts
― Human Acts
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