“We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.”
― The Gifts of Imperfection
― The Gifts of Imperfection
“When we demonize the feminine in women, we demonize it in men, too, causing tremendous imbalance for everyone.”
― The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness
― The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness
“You can be sure that if 85 percent of fibromyalgia patients were men, rendering them unable to work from extreme fatigue, bone-deep pain, and mind fog—there would be no problem getting the funding and research to look into this scourge upon the modern male workforce.”
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“I hope the ax doesn’t grind too hard against the stone to say it, but this being far and away a Lady’s problem
goes a long way toward explaining why it hasn’t been taken very seriously at all.”
― The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness
goes a long way toward explaining why it hasn’t been taken very seriously at all.”
― The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness
“Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.”
― The Gifts of Imperfection
― The Gifts of Imperfection
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