Illness/mental

Famous quotes containing the words illness and/or mental:

“...his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 17:17.

“All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysands to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)