Why are we, the most medicalized of societies, a culture in pain? — Marni Jackson Culture Copy Share Image
Like an animal, cancer sleeps, prowls, hibernates, turns surly or placid. — Marni Jackson Animal Copy Share Image
“Home alone with a wakeful newborn, I could shower so quickly that the mirror didn't fog and the backs of my knees… — Marni Jackson Home alone Copy Share Image
Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there. — Marni Jackson Albania Copy Share Image
The first axiom of the family vacation is that someone, possibly everyone, will get sick. — Marni Jackson Axioms Copy Share Image
Housework hassles go on, are never resolved, and will probably extend into the afterlife ('Why am I the one who takes the… — Marni Jackson Afterlife Copy Share Image
Simple intervention - the time spent with a patient - is a very powerful ingredient of the patient-doctor contract. The evidence is… — Marni Jackson Back pain Copy Share Image
Addiction might be redefined not as a character flaw but as a "biochemical deficit management." Our emotional habits will become an accepted… — Marni Jackson Accepted Copy Share Image
Home alone with a wakeful newborn, I could shower so quickly that the mirror didn't fog and the backs of my knees… — Marni Jackson Air conditioner Copy Share Image
I could still remember how having a two day old baby makes you feel faintly sorry for everyone else, stuck in their… — Marni Jackson Baby Copy Share Image
At a certain point, the soul exits from a cherished photograph, because we have come to the end of our loving projection… — Marni Jackson Certain Copy Share Image
When a mother comes home with her new baby, she will find her abstractions are all concrete now. 'Freedom' now means being… — Marni Jackson Able Copy Share Image
There seems to be a hole in the culture where mothers went. Then, when their kids went off to school or stopped… — Marni Jackson Amnesia Copy Share Image
It wasn't just that my breasts were sore and my legs seethed with restlessness at night. A knitted cap seemed to have… — Marni Jackson Brain Copy Share Image
Every time I caught a fish, I wondered how something so small could have such clear, pure strength. It kept reminding me… — Marni Jackson Another life Copy Share Image
If Jeff Mogil and Ron Melzack are right about genetics and pain, fifty years from now, generic Tylenol tablets will seem as… — Marni Jackson Bottles Copy Share Image
Well, delusions are a wonderful thing, and they keep you company, too. — Marni Jackson Business Copy Share Image
Hasn't anyone thought to look at outcomes as a logical way to figure out what really works? Not until recently. That tells… — Marni Jackson Figures Copy Share Image
Breastfeeding is an unsentimental metaphor for how love works, in a way. You don’t decide how much and how deeply to love… — Marni Jackson Beloved Copy Share Image
Household hollowness comes around in irregular cycles, like meteor showers. But the true sign of a bad patch is that it never… — Marni Jackson Crosses Copy Share Image
When a couple turns domestic, for the first while having to talk about the need for aluminum eaves troughing and other matters… — Marni Jackson Aluminum Copy Share Image
This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise… — Marni Jackson Annoying Copy Share Image
These doctors, who had long experience with people in pain in addition to their traditional training and schooling, had discovered that nothing… — Marni Jackson Bedside Copy Share Image
Given the ... multidisciplinary philosophy, I was surprised by the absence of alternative pain approaches - the whole spectrum of cranial-sacral massage,… — Marni Jackson Absence Copy Share Image
