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“Breast cancer, I can now report, did not make me prettier or stronger, more feminine or spiritual. What it gave me, if you want to call this a ‘gift,’ was a very personal, agonizing encounter with an ideological force in American culture that I had not been aware of before- one that encourages us to deny reality, submit cheerfully to misfortune, and blame only ourselves for our fate.” I can now…
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“Breast cancer, I can now report, did not make me prettier or stronger, more feminine or spiritual. What it gave me, if you want to call this a ‘gift,’ was a very personal, agonizing encounter with an ideological force in American culture that I had not been aware of before- one that encourages us to deny reality, submit cheerfully to misfortune, and blame only ourselves for our fate.” I can now…