Susan Sontag Quotes

The Age-old, Seemingly Inexorable Process Whereby Diseases Acquire Meanings (by Coming To Stand For The Deepest Fears) And Inflict Stigma Is Always Worth Challenging, And It Does Seem To Have More Limited Credibility In The Modern World, Among People Willing To Be Modern - The Process Is Under Surveillance Now. With This Illness, One That Elicits So Much Guilt And Shame, The Effort To Detach It From These Meanings, These Metaphors, Seems Particularly Liberating, Even Consoling. But The Metaphors Cannot Be Distanced Just By Abstaining From Them. They Have To Be Exposed, Criticized, Belabored, Used Up.

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