Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been…

An anomaly is not an abnormality. Diversity does not signify sickness.

— Georges Canguilhem

I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at…

— Patricia Highsmith

In a noted 1943 Harvard study, there were no cases of toxemia, congenital anomalies, or neonatal deaths among a group of well-fed woman. In…

— Tom Brewer

Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our…

— Chinua Achebe

The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think…

— Karl A. Menninger

From what has been said, it would appear that the possibility of thyroid deficiency should be considered, and if found, should be treated in…

— Broda Otto Barnes

When you work as a day player on a film or a TV thing, like you're visiting a foreign country, where you know a…

— Anthony Heald

Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior".

— Hans Asperger

What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom…

— Frederick Lenz

“Is deviation from the locally approved norms always and everywhere to be taken as disease?”

— Bernard Wolfe

Looking at obesity without preconceived ideas, one would assume that the main trend of research should be directed toward an examination of abnormalities of…

— Hilde Bruch

as a physician I examine the dying planet as I do a dying patient. The earth has a natural system of interacting homeostatic mechanisms…

— Helen Caldicott

“If she is efficient and capable or ambitious, it is assumed that she has failed to find satisfaction as a normal woman, even to…

— Germaine Greer

There are studies that tell us that stress and lack of self-image, lack of self-esteem, severe dieting, binge dieting and binge eating can also…

— Leonard Nimoy

Photography - the supreme form of travel, of tourism - is the principal modern means for enlarging the world. As a branch of art,…

— Susan Sontag