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.

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

Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.

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.

Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

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.