Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain
To skeptics, psychogenic pain is somehow less real than other pain. But all pain is in the mind.
Elisa Gabbert • The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
The body became used to exercise, particular sounds and sensations, or even physical pain. But it was strange how shame was something you never became inured to: each time hurt just as much as the first.
Shelley Parker-Chan • She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor Book 1)
I imagine some mythic women in floral dresses who simply slide into motherhood, goddesses unbothered by the smell of poop, at home in any damp cave. These are the “naturals”: the mom on a transatlantic flight handling three small children, or the unwashed breastfeeding mom who says she wouldn’t mind “another one.” But then there are others, such as... See more
Annihilation | The Point Magazine
Part of the curriculum of growing up as a girl is to learn lessons about your vulnerability—if not from your parents, then from a culture that’s fascinated by wounded women.