Menstrual Quotes

#1. One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#2. Menstrual blood is the only source of blood that is not traumatically induced. Yet in modern society, this is the most hidden blood, the one so rarely spoken of and almost never seen, except privately by women ...

Judy Grahn

#3. Women have a better sense of smell than men do, and it's even sharper in the middle of their menstrual cycle, when estrogen levels peak and women are more likely to be deciding whether a man's attractive.

Helen Fisher

#4. For their menstrual cycle, women subconsciously want to punish men.

Daya Kudari

#5. I opened my purse, shifted through panty shields, bills, and birth control pills - I call them poppa-stoppas - and took out my menstrual calendar.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#6. No, thank you, it's nothing serious. A headache that was not serious was the usual euphemism for a menstrual period, and everyone accepted this without further comment.

Ken Follett

#7. I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.

Sarah Dessen

#8. I launched into a discourse on the gradual contraction of medieval oaths invoking the Virgin Mother Mary's menstrual blood and the seepage of Christ's wounds, astounded to find any use for my college study of medieval literature.

Hope Jahren

#9. Superfecundation is the term used when twins are conceived from sperm from different men if a woman has had more than one partner during a menstrual cycle. It is not known how often this happens, but if suspected, then paternity can be checked by DNA testing (Terasaki et al 1978).

Diane M. Fraser

#10. Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me.

Additi Gupta

#11. How lovely she could be! her face was gay and round, pink, the blue of her eyes was clear. Very different from the terrifying menstrual ice of her rages, the look of the murderess.

Saul Bellow

#12. If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby.

Germaine Greer

#13. Government agents sardonically known as the Menstrual Police regularly rounded up women in their workplaces to administer pregnancy tests. If a woman repeatedly failed to conceive, she was forced to pay a steep "celibacy tax.

Steven D. Levitt

#14. Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle.

Christiane Northrup

#15. Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.

Carol P. Christ

#16. But the problem remains two fold: the need for recognition that low thyroid function very often can provoke menstrual problems, and the need for recognition, too, that hypothyroidism may be present despite laboratory tests suggesting it is not.

Broda Otto Barnes

#17. If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

Gloria Steinem

#18. Forty years ago, after many years of successful use of thyroid therapy, leading gynecologists in this country and elsewhere were reporting thyroid had cured more menstrual disorders than all other medications combined. Unfortunately, that lesson seems to have been largely lost.

Broda Otto Barnes

#19. The body responds to a calorie deficit by slowing down the metabolism and burning muscle tissue. That leads to weakness, sluggishness, slow times. In girls, it can also result in cessation of menstrual periods, which in turn leads to loss of bone density and frequent stress fractures.

Don Kardong

#20. One weird thing is, I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time, like how women who live together have their menstrual periods at the same time, which I know about, but don't really want to know about.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#21. Do you know how much women loathe it when guys think every show of negative emotion is tied to our menstrual cycle, like we're sheep or something?

Laurie Halse Anderson

#22. A subtle urge to synchronize is pervasive in nature. Indeed, it drives the firing of thousands of pacemaker cells in the heart and brings into synchrony the menstrual cycles of women who live together for long periods of time.

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

#23. It's something fundamental to me, human rights that people are equal under law simply because they are human beings. And I can no more imagine falling in love with someone who believed, for instance, as Orthodox Jews do, that women are unclean during their menstrual periods.

Susan Jacoby

#24. And I lived in a dorm full of girls, all on the same damn menstrual schedule, so the fact that you're worse than all of them combined speaks volumes about your character.

Jessica Prince

#25. Day, but I knew from commercials that one's menstrual period was a blue liquid that you poured like laundry detergent onto maxi pads to test their absorbency. This wasn't blue, so ... I ignored it for a few hours.

Tina Fey

#26. The emotional or physical pain that for many women precedes and coincides with the menstrual flow is the pain-body in its collective aspect that awakens from its dormancy at that time, although it can be triggered at other times too.

Eckhart Tolle

#27. I hated puberty. It had been that horrible stage from child hood, to pre teen, and my stage from ugly, to ugly with menstrual cramps.

Melissa Grijalva

#28. The hormonal interplay inside a woman's head creates her reality. Her hormones tell her day to day what's important. They mold her desires and values.

Abhijit Naskar

#29. My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.

Carl Weathers

#30. A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

Mignon McLaughlin

#31. In order to reclaim our full selves, to integrate each of these aspects through which we pass over the course of our lives, we must first learn to embrace them though our cycles.

Lucy H. Pearce

#32. He liked to bewilder his pupils, it was a form of tyranny.

John Banville

#33. Sometimes parents don't know their children, he thought. But sometimes a parent knows her child better than anyone else, and

Henning Mankell

#34. From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.

John Hutton

#35. Our hearts are like polished mirrors. We need to wipe it clean regularly of the dust that gathers on it.

Norhafsah Hamid

#36. Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.

Alan Alda

#37. It is not 'strength' to try to take everything upon oneself.

CLAMP

#38. Don't concern yourself with other people's business. It's his problem if he receives you badly. And you cannot suffer for another person's fault. So don't worry about the behavior of other.

Epictetus

#39. And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.

Murray Walker

#40. If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I'm about to do today ?

Steve Jobs

#41. Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in their lives, honor everything equally with delight and rejoicing, and welcome with open arms what others dread and avoid.

Jean-Pierre De Caussade

#42. Witchcraft and wizardry had so effectively been denied that his own powers began to weaken, for there were few who contributed to his strength by invoking his name.

Orson Scott Card

#43. Man's Chief purpose ... is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life.

Lewis Mumford