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Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer known for her unique narrative style and profound insights into social issues. Her works often focus on religion, family, and social change, and have won her a wide readership.

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“There must be satisfaction gained in accurately naming the thing that torments you.”

Pain Suffering Language

Book:Women Talking

Source: Women Talking

“We are wasting time, pleads Greta, by passing this burden, this sack of stones, from one to the next, by pushing our pain away. We mustn’t do this. We mustn’t play Hot Potato with our pain. Let’s absorb it ourselves, each of us, she says. Let’s inhale it, let’s digest it, let’s process it into fuel.”

Action Pain Power Feminism

Book:Women Talking

Source: Women Talking

“If you have to end up in the hospital, try to focus all your pain in your heart rather than your head.”

Ifs Trying Heart Ends Pain Focus Hospitals

Author:Miriam Toews

About the Author

Born: 1964
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 58

Books & Sources

Women TalkingRelated source material

A Complicated Kindness: A NovelRelated source material

All My Puny SorrowsRelated source material

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