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“Being mad at my own body for something it has no control over only succeeded in making everything hurt even more.”
― Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics
― Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics
“Sex was everywhere. And since I couldn’t have it, at least not in the way that I felt was expected of me at the time, I believed that no one would ever want to be with me, and no one would ever be able to love me. I felt broken and incomplete.”
― Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics
― Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics
“Lightness, like anything inherited at great cost, was a lonely gift.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“Her death hit in waves. Not a flood, but water lapping steadily at her ankles. You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“I do not believe in the idea that going through pain like this is something to be grateful for. That it somehow makes me a stronger person, or more empathetic. I am not grateful for my pain. But I am grateful for the person I have become in spite of it.”
― Vagina Problems
― Vagina Problems
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