I think because mothers usually are the people who take care of us when we're little, and when we're little those mothers are omnipotent, perhaps men even more than women don't like to think about that dependency. That dependency is horror.

Every one of us is prone to implicit sexual prejudices, including women.

After years of having immersed myself in science, I do think that if you master several different ways of thinking, it makes your own thought processes more agile.

No matter how brilliant or accomplished they are, there is something emasculating for men in being pitted against a woman. It is even more true in creative fields already considered to be "squishy" and feminine, and it's a big problem because great women have been left off the record.

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.