Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.
Siri HustvedtWidowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]
Siri HustvedtI 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.
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