Skin Disease

Famous quotes containing the words skin and/or disease:

“The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious—that is, a disease not understood—in an era in which medicine’s central premise is that all diseases can be cured.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)