Quotations About / On: SICK

  • 31.
    We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick ... the trade union for the nation as a whole.
    (Edward Heath (b. 1916), British Conservative politician, prime minister. Election campaign speech, February 20, 1974, Manchester, England. Said of the Conservative Party.)
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  • 32.
    If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it.
    (Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694-1773), British statesman, man of letters. letter, Oct. 17, 1768, Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl, Esq, 5th ed., vol. IV, pp. 275-76, London (1774).)
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  • 33.
    If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your menstrual blood—if it makes you sick, you've a long way to go, baby.
    (Germaine Greer (b. 1939), Australian feminist, writer. "The Wicked Womb," The Female Eunuch (1970).)
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  • 34.
    For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp is left, become a massive, sick Thing whose sheer weight is used ruthlessly by ambitious men. Here is the real enemy of the people: our own selves dehumanized into "the masses." And where is the David who can slay this giant?
    (Lillian Smith (1897-1966), U.S. author. Prologue, The Journey (1954).)
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  • 35.
    The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.
    (Michel de Certeau (1925-1986), French author, critic. "An Unthinkable Practice," ch. 14, The Practice of Everyday Life (1974).)
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  • 36.
    If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your menstrual blood—if it makes you sick, you've a long way to go, baby.
    (Germaine Greer (b. 1939), Australian feminist writer. The Female Eunuch, "The Wicked Womb," (1970).)
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  • 37.
    If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your menstrual blood—if it makes you sick, you've a long way to go, baby.
    (Germaine Greer (b. 1939), Australian feminist writer. The Female Eunuch, "The Wicked Womb," (1970).)
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  • 38.
    A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with the stocking.
    (Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).)
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  • 39.
    Put me on a moving train if I'm sick, and I'll get well. It's good for mind and body to get out and see the world.
    (Maria D. Brown (1827-1927), U.S. homemaker. As quoted in Grandmother Brown's Hundred Years, ch. 9, by Harriet Connor Brown (1929). Said sometime between 1907 and 1913. Following the death of her husband in 1906, when she was 79, Brown began to travel alone by train and continued to do so for the next seven years.)
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  • 40.
    How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
    (Alice James (1848-1892), U.S. diarist. letter, Dec. 11, 1889, to her brother, psychologist William James. The Diary of Alice James, ed. Leon Edel (1964).)
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