Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
Maybe the less pain we inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria or your own unfeminine inadequacy. Women have learned to submit to pain by hearing authority figures - doctors, priests, psychiatrists - tell us that what we feel is not pain.