Lit circle #1

Quotes of Henrietta Lacks

• "'A knot'... 'It hurt something awful- when that man want to get with me, Sweet Jesus aren't them but some pains.'"(14).  This is how Henrietta felt when she first found out something unusual about her cervix.
 
• "[Henrietta] found blood spotting her underwear when it wasn't her time of the month."(15). This is one of her symptom of her alignment.
 
• "Henrietta slid a finger inside herself and rubbed it across her cervix until she found... a hard lump, deep inside, as though someone had lodged a marble just to the left of the opening to her womb."(15).  Henrietta self diagnosed her tumor in her cervix.
 
• "...the lump tested negative for syphilis..."(15).  Her test result was negative.

• "daughter...is epileptic and can't talk..."(16).  The environment she lived in was harsh.
 
• "...shiny and purple... so delicate, it bled at the slightest touch."(17). This is how the tumor was like.

• "Henrietta and Day woke each morning at four o' clock to milk the cows and feed the chicken..." Henrietta's childhood was harsh.