The sterile room is so fast-paced. And I’m a person who’s really into learning….and so, okay, now I’ve got the technical down, so now I can, like, get lax in my thought processes. You know, it becomes more robotic. And I think that what happened one day [was] I stepped back inside of myself, and I was just like, oh my God, what are you doing? When I saw the hair…
— Wendy Simonds, Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, p. 7.
