“When it comes to intimate violence, are we, women, not the perpetrators of at least as much, if not more knowing, selfish damage to the universal female psyche, spirit, and potential? If I may speak only from my own experience … yes.”
― Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum
― Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum
“Human beings have never lived in harmony with nature.”
― The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
― The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
“There is in fact a category of people who get unusually close to the truth about themselves and the world. Their self-perceptions are more balanced, they assign responsibility for success and failure more evenhandedly, and their predictions for the future are more realistic. These people are living testimony to the dangers of self-knowledge. They are the clinically depressed.”
― A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
― A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
“The DNA recipe to build upper arms, forearms, wrists, and digits is virtually identical in every creature that has limbs.”
― Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
― Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
“It is very difficult for most healthy Americans to envision themselves as the ones whose liberty might be threatened in the effort to protect the health of the community. As a society, we have become masters of stigmatizing the sick and the contagious; we label them as separate from the mainstream.”
― Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health
― Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health
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