Famous quotes containing the words mental and/or illness:
“Surely it is one of the requisites of a tasteful garb that the expression of effort to please shall be wanting in it; that the mysteries of the toilet shall not be suggested by it; that the steps to its completion shall be knocked away like the sculptors ladder from the statue, and the mental force expended upon it be swept away out of sight like the chips on the studio floor.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (18441911)
“The fact that illness is associated with the poorwho are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in ones midstreinforces the association of illness with the foreign: with an exotic, often primitive place.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
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