"We tend to hold that popping medicine in our mouths and swallowing is the extent of our involvement in the healing process. We believe that if we get better, it's because the medicine worked magic, not the person."

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Source : Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.50, Seal Press

Inga Muscio

#Believe Quotes #Healing Quotes #Medicine Quotes

“I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very prominent if you reinforce them.”
“I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor”
“Suppose one who had always continued blind be told by his guide that after he has advanced so many steps he shall come to the brink of a precipice, or be stopped by a wall; must not this to him seem very admirable and surprising? He cannot conceive how it is possible for mortals to frame such predictions as these, which to him would seem as strange and unaccountable as prophesy doth to others. Even they who are blessed with the visive faculty may (though familiarity make it less observed) find therein sufficient cause of admiration.”
“Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other.”
“Everyone disappoints [Larry Kramer]. So it's not a problem for him either way.”

Source : Source: fourtwonine.com
“Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.”
“The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.”

Source : "Conversations dans le Loir-et-Cher". Book by Paul Claudel, p. 22; translation from The Independent, February 6, 2001, 1984.
“people are all there is to an organization”

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