Mental Illness

Famous quotes containing the words mental and/or illness:

    “The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

    “The fact that illness is associated with the poor—who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one’s midst—reinforces the association of illness with the foreign: with an exotic, often primitive place.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)