Margaret M. Lock quotes
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“Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.”
-- Margaret M. LockSource : Margaret M. Lock (1994). “Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America”, p.35, Univ of California Press
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“Flirting with death is the spice of life.”
-- Margaret M. LockSource : Margaret M. Lock (2002). “Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, p.366, Univ of California Press
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“Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.”
-- Margaret M. LockSource : Margaret M. Lock (2002). “Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, p.11, Univ of California Press
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“The locus of the modern struggle with its enemy of death is clearly the body (not mind, society, or the afterworld). The body is the site of tragedy, the ultimate unresolvable paradox, for it is at once the source of life and of death.”
-- Margaret M. LockSource : Margaret M. Lock (2002). “Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, p.203, Univ of California Press
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“Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious political reason for taking such a position because it could then be established that dementia-like conditions are not part of the spiritual/theological domain, but undeniably biological in origin and therefore not attributable with moral implications.”
-- Margaret M. Lock
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“The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.”
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“I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.”
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“[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.”
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Source : Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2009.
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