“Have no shame ... as another woman friend of mine counseled with perfect sincerity and cheer: 'Just gain the 25 pounds. I really think I would not have survived menopause--AND the death of my mother--without having gained these 25 pounds.' [quoting Sandra Tsing Loh's 'The Madwoman in the Volvo']” DeathMotherLossWeightShameCheerMenopauseMadwomanSandra Tsing Loh Book:What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You Source: What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You
“I could not tell anymore how much of the screaming came from my own mouth. I was borne up on the swell of it, I was the sound. We were all howling together, the poor and the quality, the boxing girl and the beast inside my breast. If she was a madwoman, then we were all of us with her, and I had never felt such savage elation, nor known that it existed.” FightingPassionBoxingFanaticismCrowdCharlotteThe Fair FightMadwoman Book:The Fair Fight Source: The Fair Fight