“Everyone on Earth, they'd tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“You can be both soft and intense. Both vulnerable and strong. Both traditional and rebellious. Both romantic and realistic. Both feminine and oceanic yet filled with slow burning fire. There is possibility inside of paradox. There is a universe of different perceptions.”
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“Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses... swapped back and forth and over again.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“In the face of scary things, knowledge was always a comfort to me. No matter what the subject was, if I could find a book or two about it, I could squash any anxiety that it might provoke. As my heroine Scully once said, “The answers are there, you just have to know where to look.”
― Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
― Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
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