LOUISE KRAMER: I took care of my mother. She lived to be 86. You know, she
was sick all her life, but hey, after she lost her mind she was healthy!
(laughs)

(from the book Trees Breathe Out People Breathe In)

HENRY TURNER: Even if a man has a bad nervous breakdown and ends up in a
hospital, by getting off of dope - you know, tranquilizers - by getting a
lot of natural sleep and eating pretty good, more of his natural abilities
will return and by educating he can develop his skills as much as his or
her brain will allow.

(from Duplex Planet issue #81)

VERONICA FRAZIER: My husband worked in the glass factory. They had three,
one on College Street, one on Main Street and one on West End. One used to
make those cosmetic jars, like Vaseline jars. And the other one made Mason
jars, that you'd can fruit and vegetables in. Now let me see, what was the
third one? (thinking) They made novelty things.
He quit school and got a job in the glass factory and he worked
there until he died.
DBG: Had he been ill?
VERONICA: He developed a heart condition. But he worked until he died. He
was only fifty-one. He felt bad, went to the doctors, got checked out, and
just said "I'm gonna start back to work next week." And next week he was
dead. It was just the heart condition and nothing could be done about it.
Coronary thrombosis is what it was. But he was only fifty-one.

(from the book Trees Breathe Out People Breathe In)

GERTRUDE BERG: You know, when I was in the hospital I could remember
everything the doctor would ask -- he'd say what is this and what is that,
but I couldn't remember the date. I had 1996 in my head. I'd say "1996,"
and he'd say, "No it ain't Gert, it's not 1996." So I woke up one night at
the hospital and I said I'm gonna (taps her head) remember this, 'cause it
was '98. All night it was in my mind. So the next morning when he came in
he said, "Well, what's the year?" I said 1998. He said, "How'd you -- I
mean, good for you!" I said, "well I stayed up all night working on it!"
the doctor explained to my daughter. He said, "What happened to your mother
is like you take a paper and tear it all in little pieces and shake it in a
jar and then try and put it together. That's the way her brain fits." All
the pieces are there but you have to work to get them together.

(from the book Trees Breathe Out People Breathe In)

WHAT'S THE GREATEST INVENTION?

ANNE RAPP: How about some of the drugs that people take to get well.
SYBIL ROBERTSON: The new miracle drugs.
SALLY COPLAN: Aspirin.
SYBIL: Yes, aspirin.

(from Duplex Planet issue # 106)