“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”

— Barbara Kingsolver , The Bean Trees

Source: The Bean Trees

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American author, poet and essayist 1955

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