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But her madness, the majesty of her madness, still retained a mad queen’s pathetic coquetry:
Ada, or Ardor
Vladimir Nabokov
I must recognize, too, the opportunities for being a peacemaker which are daily offered me. Nothing dramatic or spectacular, but lots of little things, and the smallness does not make them less opportunities.
The Irrational Season
Madeleine L'Engle
The awakening began quietly in 1977, when a British pediatrician named Roy Meadow came upon evidence that there were some people in the world—nearly always women—who faked or caused illnesses in their own children to gain attention and sympathy, particularly from the medical establishment. Meadow modified a memorable term that another British physician, Richard Asher, had applied in 1951 to people who invented their own illnesses for the same reason. Recalling the fanciful, fib-telling eighteenth century German baron Karl Friedrich Freiherr von Munchhausen, Asher had coined the name Munchausen syndrome. Roy Meadow added two words and published his observations in the prestigious British journal The Lancet, under the title: “Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: The Hinterland of Child Abuse.”
The Death of Innocents
Richard Firstman, Jamie Talan
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