“[T]here is only one zot, thisness. Zot is a feminine word for "this." The word zot is itself one of the names… — Diane Ackerman Feminine Copy Share Image
“Although Mengele's subjects could be operated on without any painkillers at all, a remarkable example of Nazi zoophilia is that a leading… — Diane Ackerman Nazi Zoophilia Copy Share Image
“Marek Edelman in Krall, Shielding the Flame. After the war Edelman became a cardiologist, commenting that "when one knows death so well,… — Diane Ackerman Cardiologist Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is what everyone craves - not love or sex, but a hot-blooded, soaring intensity, in which being alive is a joy… — Diane Ackerman Adventure Copy Share Image
So before I start work on a book, I'm like a pregnant mole - I obsessively tidy and order my closets and… — Diane Ackerman Art work Copy Share Image
All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits… — Diane Ackerman Brain Copy Share Image
Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't… — Diane Ackerman Human nature Copy Share Image
In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be… — Diane Ackerman Absence Copy Share Image
“So couples relive romantic memories, families watch home movies, and friends "catch up" with each other, as if they've lagged behind on… — Diane Ackerman Family Copy Share Image
“Must be I find you tough and lusty as the life, all toil and tempo, finesse and plain fight, with values so… — Diane Ackerman Bloom Copy Share Image
“Insight roams the sea of the unconscious like the Loch Ness monster, a rumor whose wake occasionally becomes visible, but even then… — Diane Ackerman Insight Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, we exist only in relation to the world, and our senses evolved as scouts who bridge… — Diane Ackerman Bridge Copy Share Image
It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions. — Diane Ackerman Attention Copy Share Image
If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to… — Diane Ackerman Adults Copy Share Image
“...as zookeepers, the Zabinskis understood both vigilance and predators; in a swamp of vipers, one planned every footstep. Shaped by the gravity… — Diane Ackerman Page-242 Copy Share Image
Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children,… — Diane Ackerman Adults Copy Share Image
In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would,… — Diane Ackerman Country Copy Share Image
There is a furnace in our cells, and when we breathe we pass the world through our bodies, brew it lightly, and… — Diane Ackerman Altered Copy Share Image
hope and uncertainty [are] the twin ingredients necessary for romance to thrive. ... Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope, or… — Diane Ackerman Excitement Copy Share Image
It's so acceptably easy for a woman not to strive too hard, not to be too adventure-crazed, not to take too many… — Diane Ackerman Adventure Copy Share Image
The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay… — Diane Ackerman Am Copy Share Image
“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it.… — Diane Ackerman Life Copy Share Image
“If an expectant mother stepped over a rope on the ground or under a clothesline, the umbilical cord would tangle during childbirth.… — Diane Ackerman Parenting Copy Share Image
Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent… — Diane Ackerman Devising Copy Share Image
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