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1 " All these things we do bespeak a terrible anxiety: that our children simply will not be able to make it through life if we do not perform totemic acts to keep them on the path toward self-perfection and keep their lives pure and unfettered by distracting emotion, personality foibles, or less-than-ideal experiences. "
― Judith Warner , Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
2 " The virus altered the the eye of the beholder. That this change came at the expense of the beheld suggests that beauty in nature does not necessarily bespeak health, nor necessarily redound to the benefit of the beautiful. "
― Michael Pollan , The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
