People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. – Martha Beck
We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster. – Martha Beck
People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. – Martha Beck
We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster. – Martha Beck
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from lifes slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone. – Martha Beck
Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past. – Martha Beck
Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie Does Dallas, and the monkish types who burned a million or so witches in the Middle Ages had almost certainly not come across Boobs and Buns or related periodicals. – Barbara Ehrenreich