Backache Quote by Gillian Flynn

Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as…

— Naomi Wolf

In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom.”

— Gillian Flynn

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

— Siri Hustvedt

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

— Aldous Huxley

Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty…

— Paul Tournier

Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.

— Fran Drescher

We're always sick and we just don't know it. What we mean by health is only when our constant physical deterioration is undetectable.

— Steve Toltz

The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

A significant number of women who have been ill or had marital issues feel they have no value, and society is so keen on…

— Susanne Bier

Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they…

— Robert Jordan