Hysterectomy Quotes

“It wasn't my first mutilation, but it was one of my best.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

“Those baby-ghosts love to whisper; they love to hypnotize me every time I smell a newborn’s head or even look at Facebook posts of toddlers splashing in bathtubs and playing in pumpkin patches. But the truth is, those whispers are small echoes of a life that wasn’t supposed to
be—a life I unknowingly abandoned when I stepped foot in that classroom and used my time to care for other people’s children. Those whispers taunt from some innate, ancestral, maybe even mystical place of wonder that, surely, I’ll never understand. What I do understand is the transformative value—how to use those voices to repair others and bring meaning to my life. For every student rocking in that blue chair, I have purpose.”
― Jennifer Rieger, Burning Sage

“she even contemplated having her womb taken out to eliminate periods altogether, which would surely be her greatest possible career move, a tactical hysterectomy for ambitious women with menstruation problems”
― Bernadine Evaristo

“They cut you open and scrape it all out, scoop it from you like the innards of a melon. The knots of flesh and malevolent cells. Scoop, scratch, snip. It's all gone. Everything that sat there, waiting inside you. Biding its time from girlhood to womanhood, knowing all the secrets, promising all the gifts. One day, your body whispers in your ear. One day you will perform miracles with your flesh. Ovaries. Womb. Gone. Eradicated. You weep for what is lost, but the tears wash nothing away, they just empty you out even further.”
― Michelle Sacks, You Were Made for This

“Among them was the company's power morcellator, a tiny blender that surgeons used to grind up and extract uteruses during hysterectomies. The procedures splattered women's abdominal cavities with endometrial cells that in far too many cases turned out to be cancerous. One in three hundred women who underwent the procedure developed metastatic cancer, according to the FDA.”
― Gardiner Harris, No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson