--- title: "1 Societal-denial Quotes By Lauren Slater" description: "1 Societal-denial quotes by Lauren Slater. Plus more from Lauren Slater and more Societal-denial sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96a/lauren-slater-11238_abuse-deniers_well-before-she-became-famous-or-infamou_2977650.jpg" --- > [“Well before she became famous — or infamous, depending on where you cast your vote — Loftus's findings on memory distortion were clearly commodifiable. In the 1970s and 1980s she provided assistance to defense attorneys eager to prove to juries…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/well-before-she-became-famous-or-infamous-depending-on-where-you-cast/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96a/lauren-slater-11238_abuse-deniers_well-before-she-became-famous-or-infamou_2977650.jpg) ## More by Lauren Slater > [“When you die, there’s that much less breath to the world, and across continents someone supposedly separate gasps for air. When Marie, Joseph, peter,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/when-you-die-there-s-that-much-less-breath-to-the-world-and-across/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [“When I was a girl I loved fevers and flus and the muzzy feeling of a head cold, all these states carrying with them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/when-i-was-a-girl-i-loved-fevers-and-flus-and-the-muzzy-feeling-of-a/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [“Why doesn't passionate love last? how is it possible to see a person as beautiful on Monday, and 364 days later, on another Monday,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/why-doesn-t-passionate-love-last-how-is-it-possible-to-see-a-person/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [“... instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/instead-of-spelling-stories-you-spread-silence-which-was-outside-the/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [“Finally the dawn came, the sky fringed with pink, and the sun bright as a coin in a spill of rising red.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/finally-the-dawn-came-the-sky-fringed-with-pink-and-the-sun-bright-as/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [“How do you describe emptiness? Is it the air inside a bubble, the darkness in a pocket, snow? I think, yes, I was six…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/how-do-you-describe-emptiness-is-it-the-air-inside-a-bubble-the/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/everyone-knows-that-a-lot-of-memoirs-have-made-up-scenes-it-s-obvious/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/are-psychiatric-crises-so-overwhelming-to-the-mind-that-they-inhibit/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [“I had lived my life by these kinds of banners, only now, searching the sentence, I found little in it that resonated deep in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/i-had-lived-my-life-by-these-kinds-of-banners-only-now-searching-the/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [Much has been said about the meanings we make of illness, but what about the meanings we make out of cure? Cure is complex,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/much-has-been-said-about-the-meanings-we-make-of-illness-but-what/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [“I believe my strength has something to do with memory, with that concept of fluid time. For while I recall with clarity the terror…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/i-believe-my-strength-has-something-to-do-with-memory-with-that/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [“I couldn’t reach her. I was never able to reach her. Maybe she moved at a pace too fast. Maybe she was too sad.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/i-couldn-t-reach-her-i-was-never-able-to-reach-her-maybe-she-moved-at/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [“They cleared swiftly, dramatically, like a stage set or a movie; we went from black to stunning blue, the day emerging at once wet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/they-cleared-swiftly-dramatically-like-a-stage-set-or-a-movie-we-went/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [Depression is a death within, a knowledge - terrifying - that you cannot resurrect yourself. Depression is loss of the vision that lets leaves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/depression-is-a-death-within-a-knowledge-terrifying-that-you-cannot/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/i-was-born-from-nothing-and-to-nothing-i-will-return-and-yet-when-i/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/societal-denial/lauren-slater/#itemlist", "name": "1 Societal-denial Quotes By Lauren Slater", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Well before she became famous — or infamous, depending on where you cast your vote — Loftus's findings on memory distortion were clearly commodifiable. In the 1970s and 1980s she provided assistance to defense attorneys eager to prove to juries that eyewitness accounts are not the same as camcorders. \"I've helped a lot of people,\" she says. 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