Imalah

“I notice that every patient on the ward has a pulse of 60 recorded in their observation chart so I surreptitiously inspect the healthcare assistant’s measurement technique. He feels the patient’s pulse, looks at his watch and meticulously counts the number of seconds per minute.”
― Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

“What I think is common is that she exists in a society that discourages her from looking underneath too often; she exists in a society where misinformation about the vagina is rife, where women’s sexuality is discouraged and shamed. It starts early, with the sex education that most of us receive, where there is an emphasis on men’s orgasms and male ejaculation.”
― Lynn Enright

“Laughter sends a powerful message: We’re still alive, we’re still laughing, and we love life.”
― Ahed Tamimi, They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom

“N, still new to me, coming inside and sitting down, me thinking that we would have sex and he would leave and it would be whatever, but instead we kissed a little bit and then started talking and I heard myself telling him, in an unvarnished tone, things I usually conceal very carefully. I heard him telling me things men don’t often speak of, things people don’t usually tell each other. We talked about fear and feelings and alienation and pain, and we did not have sex, and when he left I felt closer to him than I ever had to anyone whose body I had shared.”
― Margo Steines, Brutalities: A Love Story