Latest Mary Roach Quotes from Interviews

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• Yet if you don't understand the physiology of a biological system or process-like female sexual arousal-you can't possibly come up with a way to fix it when things go wrong. No one would have come up with a treatment for diabetes if physiologists hadn't figured out how metabolism, blood sugar, and insulin work.

  Mary Roach

  Female, Diabetes

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• Viagra does have a physiological effect, but it doesn't make women feel aroused. Nowadays, researchers are looking at drugs that affect the central nervous system rather than blood flow to the genitals.

  Mary Roach

  Drug, Nervous

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• People are vomiting unrealistically in movies, and something must be done about it.

  Mary Roach

  People, Done, Vomiting

  Source: therumpus.net

• In my whole life, I've never vomited from seeing something disgusting. Does it really even happen, outside of movies and TV? I believe it may be a myth.

  Mary Roach

  Believe, Tvs, Doe

  Source: therumpus.net

• The writing is always the easy part, provided I can get the good material. It's the getting of the good material that's a challenge.

  Mary Roach

  Writing, Challenges, Easy

  Source: therumpus.net