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Maybe only music has the power to bring a place or a person back, so close to you that you can smell them in the air. And I can't play guitar.
“By refusing to let it take her beauty, Amrita wasn’t just giving herself the gift of a more youthful appearance; she was reclaiming a sense of control over her life.”
― All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
― All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
“I could imagine it in a way that felt like remembering”
― Leaving the Atocha Station
― Leaving the Atocha Station
“A delicate euphemistic vocabulary has sprung up alongside these new procedures: lifting, plumping, smoothing, filling. It all sounds so gentle, less like medicine, more like self-care. And yet we are still no closer to disentangling what women want for their faces and bodies from what doctors, or husbands, or social pressures might tell them they’re supposed to want.”
― All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
― All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
“Yet evidence shows that women also spend more time with patients, embrace more empathic roles, and connect with their patients better (resulting in better outcomes).”
― All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
― All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King
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