Rose George : (5)

" My mother watched her loving husband look at her with blankness or contempt and sometimes hatred. And yet dementia is classed as a social condition, so that the state is not required to pay for long-term residential care. Calling it what it is – brain damage – is too expensive. " - Rose George

" The first thing I did when I decided that I was going to dive into the world of poop was look at who was doing stuff in that world. The first I came across was the World Toilet Organization. So one of the first things I did was to go to their annual show in Moscow. " - Rose George

" Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships… Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff. " - Rose George

" The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk. " - Rose George

" In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and everyone bought it. " - Rose George