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While I’m grateful that no one has manacled me to the inside of a well, my psychiatrist and I remind each other regularly: the science of treating mental illness is still in its dark ages.

From Scientific American • May 8, 2013

Was it of the blood only, because she was one of those women nature has manacled with the heaviness of the earth's demands?

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice