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Kate Clifford Larson QUOTES

1 " Treatment for people with disabilities and mental illness in prewar America reveals a profoundly ignorant medical establishment and educational community. "

― Kate Clifford Larson , Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

2 " Shriver brothers Robert and Mark have also found ways to support the family commitment to the disabled. With the musician Bono, Robert helped found DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade in Africa), which advocates for the eradication of poverty through education, debt reduction, development assistance, and campaigning for access to treatment for AIDS and malaria in Africa; and Mark serves as senior vice president of U.S. programs for Save the Children. Eunice’s only daughter, Maria Shriver, sits on the boards of Special Olympics and Best Buddies, and "

― Kate Clifford Larson , Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

3 " (Frances Ellen Watkins Harper) "In closing, Harper challenged the white women in the audience to stand by their black sisters, to look beyond their own white privilege. “You white women speak here of rights. I speak of wrongs,” she reminded them. “Talk of giving women the ballot-box? … While there exists this brutal element in society which tramples upon the feeble and treads down the weak, I tell you that if there is any class of people who need to be lifted out of their airy nothings and selfishness, it is the white women of America. "

― Kate Clifford Larson , Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero

4 " It’s really that simple: love gave me confidence and adversity gave me purpose. "

― Kate Clifford Larson , Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

5 " ROSEMARY AND EUNICE’S brother Ted, a senator from Massachusetts for more than forty-seven years, would take over as legislative champion for the cause of the disabled by initiating, sponsoring, and supporting hundreds of pieces of legislation. He believed that Rosemary “taught us the worth of every human being. "

― Kate Clifford Larson , Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

6 " In subject files labeled as correspondence related to Rosemary Kennedy, withdrawal sheets indicate the removal of hundreds of documents dating between 1923 and the 1970s. This leaves significant gaps in the historical record. A large amount of the withdrawn material is associated with Rosemary’s treatment and care after her lobotomy. "

― Kate Clifford Larson , Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

7 " When holding Rose’s legs together failed to keep the baby from coming, the nurse resorted to another, more dangerous practice: holding the baby’s head and forcing it back into the birth canal for two excruciating hours. The "

― Kate Clifford Larson , Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

8 " It has been suggested that Joe Sr. spoke with doctors about a very experimental brain operation for the treatment of serious mental-health conditions, leucotomy—popularly known as prefrontal lobotomy—while he was still in England. "

― Kate Clifford Larson , Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

9 " The surgery involved cutting the white fibrous connective tissue linking the frontal lobes to the rest of the brain, relieving the violent rages and psychological and physical pain some severely mentally ill patients suffered. White told Kick that the results were “just not good”; he had seen for himself that after the surgery patients “don’t worry so much, but they’re gone as a person, just gone. "

― Kate Clifford Larson , Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

10 " Women were most frequently institutionalized by the order of husbands and fathers, whose will and opinion superseded the women’s. "

― Kate Clifford Larson , Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

11 " disorder, chronic pain, and bipolar and other mood disorders. The procedure was also used to treat perceived defective personality traits that included homosexuality, nymphomania, criminal behavior, and marijuana and drug addiction. Freeman would later describe potential patients as society’s “misfits.” Women, in particular, made up the largest group of lobotomy patients. Women who were depressed, had bipolar illness, or were sexually active outside the range of socially and culturally acceptable limits of the day—including single women exhibiting typical sexual desire—were considered candidates. "

― Kate Clifford Larson , Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

12 " The stigma of mental illness is still alive and well. "

― Kate Clifford Larson , Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

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― Kate Clifford Larson , Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

14 " He believed that surgical intervention into the brain to treat psychological disorders did not require the extensive surgical training that neurosurgeons spent years acquiring. Though "

― Kate Clifford Larson , Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

15 " At McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, one of the premier psychiatric hospitals in the nation, women represented eighty-two percent of the total number of lobotomy patients from 1938 to 1954. In hospitals across the country, women constituted between sixty and eighty percent of all lobotomy recipients, in spite of the fact that men comprised the majority of institutionalized patients. "

― Kate Clifford Larson , Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

16 " Twenty years after women had finally gained the right to vote, society’s lingering nineteenth-century ideas played heavily on social, religious, and scientific attempts to control women’s more public and expressive sexuality. "

― Kate Clifford Larson , Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

17 " Freeman and a handful of colleagues around the world were convinced that lobotomies were the much-longed-for cure for deep depression, mental illness, and violent, erratic, and hyperactive behavior. But the procedure was never meant to be used on intellectually disabled individuals. "

― Kate Clifford Larson , Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

18 " the article mostly praised the potential of the surgery to make mentally ill patients who were “problems to their families and nuisances to themselves . . . into useful members of society. "

― Kate Clifford Larson , Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

19 " At that time the Roman Catholic Church routinely refused the sacraments of Holy Communion and Confirmation to intellectually disabled children, especially those with Down syndrome. "

― Kate Clifford Larson , Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

20 " The procedure was also used to treat perceived defective personality traits that included homosexuality, nymphomania, criminal behavior, and marijuana and drug addiction. Freeman would later describe potential patients as society’s “misfits.” Women, in particular, made up the largest group of lobotomy patients. Women who were depressed, had bipolar illness, or were sexually active outside the range of socially and culturally acceptable limits of the day—including single women exhibiting typical sexual desire—were considered candidates. At McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, one of the premier psychiatric hospitals in the nation, women represented eighty-two percent of the total number of lobotomy patients from 1938 to 1954. In hospitals across the country, women constituted between sixty and eighty percent of all lobotomy recipients, in spite of the fact that men comprised the "

― Kate Clifford Larson , Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter