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> [Unexplained pain may sometimes direct our attention to something unacknowledged, something we are afraid to know or feel. Then it holds us to our integrity, claiming the attention we withhold. The thing which calls our attention may be a repressed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-naomi-remen/unexplained-pain-may-sometimes-direct-our-attention-to-something/)

[Rachel Naomi Remen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-naomi-remen/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85f/rachel-naomi-remen-3110_attention_unexplained-pain-may-sometimes-direct-ou_836388.jpg)

> [Women have developed the second attention because they were repressed, because they were manipulated, because they were used as property, as chattel, historically, for thousands of years and still today.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-lenz/women-have-developed-the-second-attention-because-they-were-repressed/)

[Frederick Lenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-lenz/)

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