Emma Bolden > Quotes

“I want to know. I want to remember, but I don't know what I want to remember: that I was faking it? Which means that I did have control over my body, even if I didn't have control over my emotions. Or that I wasn't faking it, which means that I didn't have control over my body or my emotions.”
― Emma Bolden, The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis

“An answer is not the same as a solution.”
― Emma Bolden, The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis

“Every time a doctor questions what you say, what you experience, what you know, marrow deep of your own body, it has its weight, and that weight is fear. It is difficult to trust in your experience of the body when the people you trust to take care of that body deny that your experience is true.”
― Emma Bolden, The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis