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“Life is hard enough. Take what is offered, because it might not always be around. You can't be harder and harder, stronger and stronger, […] until you compress into a diamond. People aren't mineral or metal. They are soft flesh, where love and pain echo through the body. Sometimes you have to ease up, to let go. You never know what will be able to help you. Compassion and gentleness are also endless.”

“If someone misunderstood my request or simply chose to be cruel, it would crush me. I just can't take that risk. I have to remain standing, folding in on myself and raking energy from the corners to get to work, running a private but familiar survival program in which I would sacrifice limbs to keep going.”

For years, I've considered it an established fact that the female body is a pain in the ass. Despite all its unique talents, from youth it's constantly wracked by hurricanes, snow and rain — by cramps and pains, premenstrual craziness, menstrual craziness, postmenstrual craziness, pill-related craziness; waves of uncontrollable rage and […] not to mention the smorgasbord of mindboggling changes that is pregnancy.