A Quote by Jane Yolen

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Jane Yolen

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Childhood Disease Literature Normally

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Jane Yolen
American - Writer
Born: February 11, 1939

People still think of AIDS as a shame-based disease, it's a sexually transmitted disease, and you're either gay or you're a prostitute or an intravenous drug user. And so a lot of people are still very bigoted about this disease. It's such a treatable disease. It's so - the end is in sight for this disease, medically.

Elton John

I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.

Max Ehrmann

I have two cousins with juvenile diabetes. They both contracted the disease before the age of 5, and it was so heartbreaking watching them go through daily blood tests and injections. It is such a difficult disease to live with and requires constant attention; a tough thing to explain to a child.

Amy Robach

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

R. D. Laing

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.

Lewis Grizzard

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.

Neil Gaiman

Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.

John Cleese

Peter Jennings came to us and said to make a PSA, 'Let's Talk About AIDS.' But I was naive about how the virus is contracted - until Magic Johnson came out. I'd stereotyped it, thinking it was a gay disease, a white man's disease.

Pepa

Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.

Shannon Fife

I had the idea of 'Live From Daryl's House' way before I contracted Lyme disease.

Daryl Hall

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

R. D. Laing

I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her childhood - E. Nesbit and Dickens, which isn't children's literature at all, but I was sort of steeped in English literature. I thought I was of that world.