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Daily Inspiration Quote by Mary Ann Mobley

"We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease"

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There is something quietly radical in the plainness of Mary Ann Mobley’s line: a former actress, not a lab-coated authority, speaking in the cautious cadence of scientific forecasting. “We are going to find” is a promise dressed as a prediction, and “I think” is the tell - a softener that signals humility while still staking a claim to progress. It’s a sentence built to reassure without overpromising, the rhetorical sweet spot for chronic illness: confidence that answers are coming, honesty that they’re not here yet.

The deeper subtext is permission to complicate a disease people often talk about as a single, brute diagnosis. “Several different kinds” reframes Crohn’s not as one enemy but as a family of related problems - a shift that smuggles in modern medicine’s big idea: personalization. If Crohn’s is plural, then failure to respond to treatment isn’t a moral flaw or patient noncompliance; it’s biology. That matters culturally because digestive diseases still carry stigma, and stigma thrives on simplification.

Coming from an actress, the line also hints at advocacy’s evolving role. Celebrity speech can be dismissed as vibes, but Mobley’s language borrows the measured tone of researchers, translating complexity into an accessible hope: classification leads to targeted care. The intent isn’t to sound profound; it’s to make the future feel organized. In a world where chronic illness often reads as endless uncertainty, she offers a different narrative: not cure-as-miracle, but understanding-as-momentum.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Mobley, Mary Ann. (2026, January 17). We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-are-going-to-find-i-think-several-different-76205/

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Mobley, Mary Ann. "We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-are-going-to-find-i-think-several-different-76205/.

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"We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-are-going-to-find-i-think-several-different-76205/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Mary Ann Mobley (born February 17, 1939) is a Actress from USA.

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