Emily

“Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying, and human existence is indistinguishable from an absurd vegetation; a life justifies itself only if its effort to perpetuate itself is integrated into its surpassing and if this surpassing has no other limits than those which the subject assigns himself.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

“Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.”
― Audre Lorde, The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

“It is not a matter of approaching a fixed limit: absolute Knowledge or the happiness of man or the perfection of beauty; all human effort would then be doomed to failure, for with each step forward the horizon recedes a step; for man it is a matter of pursuing the expansion of his existence and of retrieving this very effort as an absolute.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

“The impact of vaccination has been estimated during the “vaccines for children era” (1994–2013) at the total number of more than 322 million prevented cases of infectious diseases, 21 million avoided hospitalizations, and 731,700 avoided deaths in the United States.”
― Mondher Toumi, Introduction to Market Access for Pharmaceuticals