“Mundane, boring stories--not interesting ones--are the ideal in an operating room.”

“Good judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment.”

“It wasn't long after the discovery of modern anesthesia that people began to die of it.”

“Psychics. I love to prove you wrong.”

“Fire and paper - they do not mix well, n'est pas?""Perhaps they mix too well.”

“At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition--so that women will only feel healthy if we are two thirds of the women we could be. How can an "ideal" be about women if it is defined as how much of a female sexual characteristic does not show on her body, and how much of a female life does not show on her face?”

“Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.”