Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quotes
THERE IS A CERTAIN depth of illness that is piercing in its isolation; the only rule of existence is uncertainty, and the only movement is the passage of time.
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I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.
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Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
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The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.
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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage.
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.
Gail Devers -
My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy.
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Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
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I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.
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My hair is naturally really thin and dead straight, with no movement.
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I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
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When I was 15, I had this illness and was basically housebound for two years.
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The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.
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In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.
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…it is no longer useful to…keep defining and elaborating our understandings of the exact nature of racism, sexism, class and sexual orientation as if they ever operated in isolation.
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Look forward. Turn what has been done into a better path.
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Whether it's writing songs, being on stage, being interviewed, meeting fans - I just try to be myself, which is kind of exhausting because it almost feels like it never shuts off.
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What is common sense isn't common practice.
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THERE IS A CERTAIN depth of illness that is piercing in its isolation; the only rule of existence is uncertainty, and the only movement is the passage of time.
