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Book cover for 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 by Abby Norman

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IF WOMEN HAVE BECOME SYNONYMOUS with hysteria, malingering, and hypochondria in a clinical setting, then it has far less to do with the natural inclinations of women and behavior than it does with the history of medicine.

Amatka

by Karin Tidbeck

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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

by V.E. Schwab

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Abigail’s Quotes

“We can’t have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the same.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

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“We need to rebrand vulnerability and emotion. A vulnerable man is not some weird anomaly. He is open to being hurt, but also open to love.”
― Grayson Perry, The Descent of Man

tags: emotion, love, vulnerability

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“For now just remember how you felt the day you were born: desperate for magic, ready to love.”
― Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman

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“Everything I know about my family’s history, I know in fragments. We are the keepers of secrets. We are secrets ourselves. We try to protect each other from the geography of so much sorrow. I don’t know that we succeed.”
― Roxane Gay, Ayiti

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“For many years, we didn't realize our parents had accents, that their voices sounded different to unkind American ears. All we heard was home.

Then the world intruded. It always does.”
― Roxane Gay, Ayiti

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