Sister Marie Simon

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    “I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almighty mortal hardly as yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no sister Juno, no Apollo, no Venus, nor Minerva, to intercede for me, thumoi phileousa te, kedomene te.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “One may confidently assert that when thirty thousand men fight a pitched battle against an equal number of troops, there are about twenty thousand on each side with the pox.”
    —Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

    “Food=joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel.... Food=everything you can imagine.”
    —Susan Powter, U.S. talk-show host. Food, p. 15, Simon & Schuster (1995)