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“It's always amazing to me how the people who fearmonger about modern medicine negatively affecting the menstrual cycle are usually promoting some type of unstudied supplement or botanical. Then again, fears about fertility are a big business. Also, these people seem to believe suffering is acceptable, and maybe even necessary, in the quest for mythical menstrual purity.”
― Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
― Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
“Humans, rather than simply mate and be done with it like other animals, make a huge drama of so-called love. They suffer and sigh, they get all sentimental, become inebriated in a sea of noble aspirations, make crazy promises.”
― I Am God
― I Am God
“I’m here. I had the world in my palm, and I found it wanting. I’m a greedy creature, Priya. I came here for you. There is a flower in my heart, and it grew for you.”
― The Lotus Empire
― The Lotus Empire
“When it comes to painful periods, there is an epidemic of undertreatment. Women's pain is undertreated in general, as compared to men's, but painful periods have historically been seen as a "woman thing" and hence unimportant. Our patriarchal system has dismissed menstrual pain as both exaggerated and a sign of weakness, and at times, perversely, as something women deserve (punishment for "original sin," I suppose).”
― Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
― Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
“What does it matter,” Malini said, her voice splintering. “If I don’t
have you? If you are gone where I cannot see you or feel you or dream
you again, then what is any of it worth to me?”
― The Lotus Empire
have you? If you are gone where I cannot see you or feel you or dream
you again, then what is any of it worth to me?”
― The Lotus Empire
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