Stacie’s Reviews > Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain > Status Update

"Is a woman in pain not in enough pain until she can't work, until she can't take care of her children, until she's unable to be a satisfying sexual partner?"

Yes. Absolutely yes. (Or, rather, she's not in enough pain until she's dead and they say "wow, we should have seen this sooner.")

"The diseases that befall women are silent, controlled, unseen."

"I've often found it curious that when a woman is suffering, her competence is questioned, but when a man is suffering he's humanized."

"Becoming a disappointment to a man, though, seemed to do the trick."