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3 quotes from The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

• "The spirit catches you and you fall down" reflects the clash between cultural beliefs and medical ethics, illustrating the complexities of healthcare in a multicultural context.
• "You have to be in the position of having your world turned upside down to understand it" emphasizes the importance of empathy and understanding in bridging cultural divides.
• "The real tragedy is that the most important aspect of the problem remains unacknowledged: cultural differences" serves as a reminder of the need for cultural competence in medicine and the impact of these differences on patient care.

Author: Anne Fadiman

Anne Fadiman, born in New York City in 1953, is an accomplished writer and the daughter of screenwriter Annalee Whitmore Jacoby Fadiman and essayist Clifton Fadiman. A Harvard College graduate of 1975, she began her writing career as an undergraduate columnist at Harvard Magazine and went on to serve as a writer and columnist for Life, followed by a role as Editor-at-Large at Civilization. Fadiman has received multiple accolades, including National Magazine Awards for Reporting and Essays, and a National Book Critics Circle Award for her influential work, *The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down*. In 1998, she published *Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader*, a collection of personal essays about literature. She also served as editor of *The American Scholar* from 1997 to 2004 and currently holds the Francis chair in nonfiction writing at Yale University. Residing in western Massachusetts, she shares her life with her husband, writer George Howe Colt, and their two children.