Nikki
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“A writer friend who is a practicing therapist as well once told me this is why writers write. They don’t feel seen. I”
― I'll Tell You in Person
― I'll Tell You in Person
“And, over time, urban-industrialized society would become increasingly responsible for controlling people whose differences might have been tolerated at home.21”
― Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
― Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
“In this one-sex world, Queen Elizabeth I could refer to herself as both a feeble virgin and the nation’s husband, and artists could represent Eve’s partner, Adam, as pregnant.3 Before the Enlightenment, there were even paintings of Christ with breasts.”
― Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
― Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
“By the early 1800s, these prison/asylums in western Europe were, therefore, populated mostly by criminals, drunkards, heretics and the blasphemous, the unemployed, the homeless, and the physically handicapped, but only occasionally by the people we today would think of as having mental illnesses or intellectual disabilities. The only thing the residents had in common was that they didn’t work.”
― Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
― Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
“Until the late 1700s, there wasn’t even a separate anatomical lexicon for the female genitalia. The clitoris was called a penis, the uterus an internal scrotum. The ovaries were testicles, the vulva and labia were foreskin, the vagina was an inverted penis, and the fallopian tubes were the epididymis. In fact, as any twenty-first-century biologist will tell you, these are indeed homologous pairs of organs, and the male and female genitalia look virtually identical in the first trimester of a fetus. There were, of course, two genders—man and woman—but those identities came from society not nature. When Marie Garnier became a man, her gender changed but not her sex.”
― Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
― Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
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