The scientist in me worries that my happiness is nothing more than a symptom of bipolar disease, hypergraphia from a postpartum disorder. The rest of me thinks that artificially splitting off the scientist in me from the writer in me is actually a ki...
This is the difference between someone whose heart is purified and sound and one whose heart is impure and corrupt. Impure people oppress, and the pure-hearted not only forgive their oppressors, but elevate them in status and character. In order to p...
The chowdry, or burqa -- the Saudi, North African, and Central Asian version of the head, face, and body shroud -- is a sensory deprivation isolation chamber. It is claustrophobic, may lead to anxiety and depression, and reinforces a woman's already ...
The effort to cure disease has been, without doubt, the greatest curse that has ever been perpetrated upon the human race. The idea that disease is something that must be cured, the idea that it is something that can be cured, must be eradicated from...
How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that…we should not...
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world...
Saying just the right thing after a considerable, awkward pause is far less effective than saying the wrong thing with perfect timing. I'm telling you.
And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper.
Chlamydia, today´s most common cause of venereal disease, does the equivalent of hiding in the police station. Schistosomes of the mansoni type go a step further and essentially steal police uniforms. These parasites, a serious cause of liver diseas...
Hilly Holbrook: They carry different diseases than we do. That's why I've drafted the Home Health Sanitation Initiative. Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: The what? Hilly Holbrook: A disease-preventative bill that requires every white home to have a separate...
All diseases run into one, old age.
If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.
Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.
It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.
I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease.
Drones watch for disease and collect real-time data on crop health and yields.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
The gods have become our diseases.
I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.
The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
