American - Writer | 1977 -
I had already drafted the manuscript that would become my first book by the time I graduated from college, but I had no idea what to do with it.
Eula Biss
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I guess I could say that I pursue questions that interest me in ways that interest me on the page, but that's awfully vague.
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Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.
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Our community of contagion really is a world community.
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Yes, there's a higher rate of people living below the poverty line who aren't vaccinated. But it's much rarer for that to be a product of choice than a product of circumstance.
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There's a lot of essay writing that could pass for journalism and journalism that could pass for essay. Some of it is just taxonomy.
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A vaccine introduces a small amount or a tempered version of the virus into the body - just enough to that the body is able to recognize it and deal with it when it encounters it again in the future.
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When I was researching the Victorian anti-vaccination movement, those activists often used a vampire as a metaphor for the vaccinator.
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The risk of getting Hep B from a blood transfusion is a tiny number, but it's a bigger number than the risk of side effects from the vaccine.
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There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.
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Yes, we can make prudent choices as parents, but we can't create an environment where there's zero risk for our children. Not only is that impossible, I don't think it's desirable, either.
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Most of us believe that dirt is good for our kids, but some of us are wary of the grass in the parks, which may or may not have been treated with toxic chemicals.
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