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Eula Biss quotes: There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.

There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.

Eula Biss quotes: Mother: "He used to say that you could lock me in a closet and I'd still get something out of it. I guess that's true." An

Mother: "He used to say that you could lock me in a closet and I'd still get something out of it. I guess that's true." An

Eula Biss quotes: Quite a bit of human solidarity has been sacrificed in pursuit of preserving some kind of imagined purity

Quite a bit of human solidarity has been sacrificed in pursuit of preserving some kind of imagined purity

Eula Biss quotes: If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.

If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.

Eula Biss quotes: We do not know alone. Dracula

We do not know alone. Dracula

Eula Biss quotes: Observing that we have waged wars on poverty and drugs as well as cancer, Susan Sontag writes, "Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in

Observing that we have waged wars on poverty and drugs as well as cancer, Susan Sontag writes, "Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in

Eula Biss quotes: Our community of contagion really is a world community.

Our community of contagion really is a world community.

Eula Biss quotes: We are, in other words, continuous with everything here on earth. Including, and especially, each other.

We are, in other words, continuous with everything here on earth. Including, and especially, each other.

Eula Biss quotes: Art-making was part of my daily life from a very young age, and I still love that kind of everyday art-making.

Art-making was part of my daily life from a very young age, and I still love that kind of everyday art-making.

Eula Biss quotes: Our constitution got built around the idea of minority protection.

Our constitution got built around the idea of minority protection.

Eula Biss quotes: Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.

Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.

Eula Biss quotes: The release loop was tight, but I thought if I was drowning I would be able to pull anything.

The release loop was tight, but I thought if I was drowning I would be able to pull anything.

Eula Biss quotes: Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.

Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.

Eula Biss quotes: But risk perception may not be about quantifiable risk so much as it is about immeasurable fear.

But risk perception may not be about quantifiable risk so much as it is about immeasurable fear.

Eula Biss quotes: I guess I could say that I pursue questions that interest me in ways that interest me on the page, but that's awfully vague.

I guess I could say that I pursue questions that interest me in ways that interest me on the page, but that's awfully vague.

Eula Biss quotes: I think that protecting children at the age where they're most vulnerable against diseases that are highly contagious is prudent.

I think that protecting children at the age where they're most vulnerable against diseases that are highly contagious is prudent.

Eula Biss quotes: There's a lot of essay writing that could pass for journalism and journalism that could pass for essay. Some of it is just taxonomy.

There's a lot of essay writing that could pass for journalism and journalism that could pass for essay. Some of it is just taxonomy.

Eula Biss quotes: But for now I prefer to think that I will go somewhere that is not so overimagined.

But for now I prefer to think that I will go somewhere that is not so overimagined.

Eula Biss quotes: I had already drafted the manuscript that would become my first book by the time I graduated from college, but I had no idea what to do with it.

I had already drafted the manuscript that would become my first book by the time I graduated from college, but I had no idea what to do with it.

Eula Biss quotes: My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories.

My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories.

Eula Biss quotes: Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.

Eula Biss quotes: However we choose to think of the social body, we are each other's environment. Immunity is a shared space--a garden we tend together.

However we choose to think of the social body, we are each other's environment. Immunity is a shared space--a garden we tend together.

Eula Biss quotes: Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.

Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.

Eula Biss quotes: One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients.

One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients.

Eula Biss quotes: If vaccination can be conscripted into acts of war, it can still be instrumental in works of love.

If vaccination can be conscripted into acts of war, it can still be instrumental in works of love.

Eula Biss quotes: Mother: "I'm amazed that more people don't commit suicide. They just keep on living. It's so hard and they just keep doing it." Useful

Mother: "I'm amazed that more people don't commit suicide. They just keep on living. It's so hard and they just keep doing it." Useful

Eula Biss quotes: The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.

The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.

Eula Biss quotes: as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." What

as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." What

Eula Biss quotes: Words like 'custody' don't mean the same thing to him. I don't want us to own anything together. "You don't want to be happy," he accuses me.

Words like 'custody' don't mean the same thing to him. I don't want us to own anything together. "You don't want to be happy," he accuses me.

Eula Biss quotes: My own thinking is often clarified and extended by talking with students.

My own thinking is often clarified and extended by talking with students.

Eula Biss quotes: She was poisoned, but the reason she was crying was that her husband didn't want her anymore.

She was poisoned, but the reason she was crying was that her husband didn't want her anymore.

Eula Biss quotes: When I was researching the Victorian anti-vaccination movement, those activists often used a vampire as a metaphor for the vaccinator.

When I was researching the Victorian anti-vaccination movement, those activists often used a vampire as a metaphor for the vaccinator.

Eula Biss quotes: The risk of getting Hep B from a blood transfusion is a tiny number, but it's a bigger number than the risk of side effects from the vaccine.

The risk of getting Hep B from a blood transfusion is a tiny number, but it's a bigger number than the risk of side effects from the vaccine.