Linds’s Reviews > Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World > Status Update

"It seems ridiculous now to imagine physicians once believed that women’s nerves were too highly strung for them to receive an education and that their ovaries would become inflamed if they read too much. But these outrageous myths are alive and well in a world where menstruation and menopause are still seen by many people as credible reasons why women shouldn’t hold positions of political power."

"As a white woman, I risk having my pain written off as hysterical. But a Black woman will often have to fight to have the very existence of her pain acknowledged."
"Black women are five times more likely to die from complications in pregnancy and during childbirth than white women. In the US, Black women have the highest rates of maternal and infant mortality of any country in the industrialized world."