2022 in One Word: Menopause

If the last year has taught me anything, it’s that our bodies are capable of staggering unpleasantness

Jacqueline Dooley
Human Parts
Published in
5 min readDec 14, 2022

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At birth, babies with ovaries already have all the eggs their body will ever produce. Technically, these aren’t eggs. They’re oocytes — immature eggs.

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Jacqueline Dooley
Human Parts

Essayist, content writer, bereaved parent. Bylines: Human Parts, GEN, Marker, OneZero, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Pulse, HuffPost, Longreads, Modern Loss