"Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.” ~ Susan Sontag (Illness as Metaphor)
I love this quote. I am a citizen of that other place.
I finished reading 'Illness as Metaphor' last night.
It originally appeared as 3 separate essays in The New Yorker. At the time (1978), it was considered an excellent opinion on society's biases concerning TB and Cancer. Sontag wrote these essays after being diagnosed with Breast Cancer.
A brilliant opinion on the different metaphors between TB and Cancer.
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