Nunca houve uma terça ou uma sexta-feira em que Yevgenia Ustinova não amputasse seios de mulheres, e ela costumava comentar com o auxiliar que limpava o centro cirúrgico, um cigarro entre os lábios exaustos, que se todos os seios que ela extirpara fossem reunidos e empilhados, o resultado seria uma pequena montanha.
Original: There was never a Tuesday or a Friday on which Yevgenia Ustinova did not cut off women's breasts and she would remark to the orderly who cleaned the theatre, a cigarette between her exhausted lips, that if all the breasts she cut off were collected together and made into a pile the result would be quite a little mountain.
Fonte: A Companion to Aphorisms & Quotations for the Surgeon — Mama
Alexander Solzhenitsyn