"My sister had health insurance; she should have been warned by her doctors that she was at risk. But she was a minority. The doctors took little interest in her as an individual, and she fell through the cracks. And died."

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Source : "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Robin Lim

#Doctors Quotes #Should Have Quotes #Risk Quotes

“Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.”
“By many a temple half as old as Time.”

Source : 'Italy. A Farewell' (1828) 2, 5.
“I envision the future sunny and with love, harmony and oneness. I think Hollywood is changing.”
“It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.”
“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. "This is often considered to be man's first attempt at a calendar" she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. 'My question to you is this - what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman's first attempt at a calendar. It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women's contributions?”
“There was some discussion, but nothing got close to being a reality. They asked for a lot and got a lot (from the White Sox).”
“Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.”
“Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist andthe broad outlook of a group are visible,... communicating and fixing certain values of religious, social, and moral life through the emotional suggestiveness of forms. It is, besides, a common ground against which innovations and individuality of particular works may be measured.”

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