Famous quotes containing the words virus and/or disease:
“[If a woman athlete who had contracted the AIDS virus admitted that she] had been with one hundred or two hundred men, theyd call her a slut, and the corporations would drop her like a lead balloon.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capriciousthat is, a disease not understoodin an era in which medicines central premise is that all diseases can be cured.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)