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Gripling’s Quotes

“It is not easy to talk about a condition once dismissed as ‘the career women’s disease’. But women will continue to suffer until we realise the cost of ignoring it”
― Hilary Mantel

tags: awareness, chronic-illness, endometriosis, hilary-mantel

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“Because being understood matters a great deal to the INFJ, they have a tendency to be overly precise with their words. They never wish to give half-truths or omissions that may leave room for misunderstandings or wrong ideas.”
― Jennifer Soldner, The INFJ Heart: Understand the Mind, Unlock the Heart

tags: infj, introvert, intuitive, mbti

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“I have the nagging sense that my true friends are waiting for me, beyond college, unusual women whose ambitions are as big as their past transgressions, whose hair is piled high, dramatic like topiaries at Versailles, and who never, ever say “too much information” when you mention a sex dream you had about your father.”
― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl

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“We can feel isolated and powerless when living with chronic illness, but what if your story begins to bridge the barrier or open a way for someone to connect? What if your story offers a glimmer of hope to someone standing at the edge of desolation? ...What if your story starts the conversation?”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

tags: chronic-illness, connect, conversation, hope, story

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“I’m in a caregiver's relationship with my body, a perpetual internal gauging of wellness. My spine is Hogarth’s thermometer. I ascend and descend its rungs a hundred times a day, reading the mercury level. The same dis-ease speaks many languages. If you block one mouth, another will speak. The symptoms represent differently, and as I get older, my translation changes. The prescription changes. Must be vigilant. Must be my best nurse.”
― Jalina Mhyana

tags: agoraphobia, chronic-fatigue-syndrome, chronic-illness, panic-attacks, sickness-and-health, the-body

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