His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was…

“His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was dieased”

— Kurt Vonnegut

My mother understood the importance of taking care of people, especially when they are exposed to hurt or pain. And I was raised to…

— Kamala Harris

My mother never understood the irony in calling me a son- of- a- b*tch.

— Anonymous

“I needed to know that my mother understood that her hand was in this too. That all the jealousy and envy and shame we…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

My mother never understood the irony in calling me a "son-of-a-bitch."

— Anonymous

My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by…

— Nikola Tesla

“Every Monday, we have to write about what we did at the weekend.” It didn’t appear that her mother understood the agony of this…

— Jane Davis

I think my mother has always understood what a romantic idealist I am, so she's never had trouble supporting what might be aberrant behavior…

— Tinsley Mortimer

I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness

— Aya Kito

“Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized…

— Lois Lowry

I think we need to talk about mental illness a lot more. People complain about tax dollars and say we don't have the money.…

— Nia Long

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

— Charles R. Swindoll

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

— Marcel Proust

Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.

— Susan Griffin