Motherhood is a mental illness.
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Quotes tagged ‘Illness’
I began to understand the ways in which body positivity had been commodified to fit a capitalist purpose that, despite its intentions, still designates some bodies as lovable, and others as in need of improvement.
You can't keep boogieing like this. You'll come down with a fever of some sort.
I have hearing loss from the radiation and my hair will never grow back. But these challenges are nothing compared to a life that might have been lost.
If the idea of illness can become illness, what else about our reality is actually a disorder?
— Noah Hawley, Nathaniel Halpern, Narrator, Jon Hamm, imdb.com
The shaikh said, ‘The Caliph has forbidden the Sema.’ This prohibition turned into a knot within a certain dervish. He fell ill and they took him to a specialist. He examined his pulse and looked for the cause of illness. It was like nothing he had ever learned about. He couldn’t find anything wrong…
She has never heard me whisper into her ear or come up with a witty reply. She has never heard me ask a question or speak my mind, to anyone.
It is those within medicine who have the ability—and bear the responsibility—to solve these problems. But particular in this #metoo moment, I believe there is enormous power in women sharing their stories. One thing I didn’t fully appreciate at the start of my research is just how much silence surro…
Medieval medical practitioners believed that chickens could absorb illness. They would rub the birds all over the bodies of the diseased in an attempt to rid them of their sickness.
— Bruce Zimmerman, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com
I found out later the week we were shooting, is when he found out, it’s over, [he’d] end treatments, that his illness has won.
Not every illness is of spirit. Some are just of body.
Don't you love it when people in school are like, "I'm a bad test taker?" You mean, you're stupid. Oh, you struggle with that part where we find out what you know? Oh. No, no, I can totally relate. See, because I'm a brilliant painter, minus my God-awful brushstrokes. Oh, how the masterpiece is crys…
Well, that's the positive thing about getting sick, you get to lose weight.
Poor little Bubble Boy. He's sitting there waiting for you in his bubble, or igloo thing or whatever.
— Larry Charles, Larry David, Elaine Benes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, imdb.com
No one knows what eet is. They can't find anything. I run, I throw, I move eet hurts. Eet goes away and come back. Someday eet hurt . . . someday no. If eet doesn't cure, I quit baseball ... No fool around.
Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.
My afflictions belong to me and my art - they have become one with me. Without illness and anxiety, I would have been a rudderless ship.. .My art is really a voluntary confession and an attempt to explain to myself my relationship with life - it is, therefore, actually a sort of egoism, but I am con…
We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.
Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.