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

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

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

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

We do not know alone. Dracula — Eula Biss

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

Our community of contagion really is a world community. — Eula Biss

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you don't share the blessings you receive with others, the Universe will stop sharing blessings with you. — Garret Biss

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

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

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

Telling yourself you like the way you look is easy. Believing it is an entirely different kettle of whales. — Andrew Biss

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. — Eula Biss