Just because my pain is invisible, doesn't mean it isn't real.
-- TV Commercial Actor (chapter 1)

Importance: With these lines from the very opening of the novel, Mona Awad establishes the most serious of her main ideas for All's Well, that of the very real suffering of women that often gets ignored by the medical establishment. Although Miranda is watching whom she thinks is a poor actor deliver the commercial message for a drug company, she relates from her own experience being lectured to by male doctors and other male health practitioners about the nature of her pain. Miranda's dismissive judgment of the female actor's performance is an ironic parallel to the dismissive attitude of people like Dr. Rainier about Miranda's own pain.

This is a problem play...Neither a tragedy nor a comedy, something in between. Something far more interesting.
-- Miranda (chapter 2)

Importance: One of the early points of conflict in the plot of All's Well comes from...