Christine Maggiore quotes

“None of what’s happened to me and to my family has shaken what I know to be correct and true about science and medicine, and my experiences.”
-- Christine Maggiore

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“I am not second-guessing or questioning my understanding of the issue”
-- Christine Maggiore

Source : "A Mother's Denial, a Daughter's Death" by Charles Ornstein and Daniel Costello, articles.latimes.com. September 24, 2005.

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“We just sent some footage to ABC Primetime, who is doing a segment that alleges to tell our side of the story, and in that, a week before she became ill, there's Eliza Jane at her friend's birthday party, blowing, over and over again, a party horn - the one with the long, curly thing that sticks out when you blow it and retracts when you breathe in - over and over and over again...this child that, a few weeks later, would be said to have died of fatal pneumonia.”
-- Christine Maggiore

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“None of what’s happened to me and to my family has shaken what I know to be correct and true about science and medicine, and my experiences.”
-- Christine Maggiore

#Medicine Quotes #My Family Quotes #Happened Quotes

“I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.”

Source : Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. March 14, 2010.

“She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.”

“No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.”

“Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.”

“When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.”

Source : Albert Murray (1970). “The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy”

“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”

“I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.”

“Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.”

“And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.”

“I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant,”