Anusha Narasimhan

“We do not tend to be afraid of the things that are most likely to harm us. We drive around in cars, a lot. We drink alcohol, we ride bicycles, we sit too much. And we harbor anxiety about things that, statistically speaking, pose us little danger. We fear sharks, while mosquitoes are, in terms of sheer numbers of lives lost, probably the most dangerous creature on earth.”
― Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation

“While we routinely call for more vaccine testing, and more human trials, the unspoken assumption is that we do not intend our children to be the subjects of those trials.”
― Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation

“A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Purity, especially bodily purity, is the seemingly innocent concept behind a number of the most sinister social actions of the past century.”
― Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation