“There is basic equipment required: a headset, a Dictaphone to play the tapes that must be transcribed, and patience, a willingness to become a human conduit as the words of others enter through her ears, course through her veins, and drip out unseen through fast-moving fingertips.”
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“I know you're on my side," an immunologist once remarked to me as we discussed the politics of vaccination. I did not agree with him, but only because I was uncomfortable with both sides, as I had seen them delineated. The debate over vaccination tends to be described with what the philosopher of science Donna Haraway would call "troubling dualisms." These dualisms pit science against nature, public against private, truth against imagination, self against other, thought against emotion, and man against woman.”
― On Immunity: An Inoculation
― On Immunity: An Inoculation
“Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.”
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“The moment between deciding to open your eyes and then actually doing it is as scary a thing as there is in the new world.”
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“This is a memoir of (my) body because, more often than not, stories of bodies like mine are ignored or dismissed or derided.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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