“Heart disease syphilis pregnancy”

“…Daudet differs from the hate-filled Baudelaire and Maupassant in being gentle to fellow-sufferers from the disease of life. Syphilis in him did not engender misanthropy.”

“Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.”

“If forcing a woman to continue a pregnancy that will almost certainly kill her is impermissible, how different... to compel... a pregnancy that will probably shorten her life? Or... that will leave her life in shambles?”

“They might have been all up in your pregnancy!”

“When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of the joy that kills.”

“If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.”

“Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.”

“Pregnancy is "a wonderful thing for the woman, it's a wonderful thing for the husband, it's certainly an inconvenience for a business."”

“Dementia is not a natural condition that we should expect to “grow into” at any age. Like heart disease, dementia has acquired a patina of normalcy only because so many of those around us succumb to it. But I believe that, like heart disease, it is a distinctly abnormal condition brought about by an abnormal diet.”