Susan Sontag Quotes about Health

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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

Susan Sontag

Courage, Health, Inspire

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

Susan Sontag

Get Well Soon, Health, Sick

New York Review of Books 26 Jan. 1978

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

Susan Sontag

Health, Night, Sick

Illness as Metaphor preface (1978)

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

Susan Sontag

War, Health, Physicians

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

Susan Sontag

Believe, Health, Reality

Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies.

Susan Sontag

Military, Health, Medicine