Top 43 Quotes About Menstruation
#1. From a May 2010 Interview, Chuck Palahniuk
Weird and creepy but true, I've been reading lots of Judy Blume. Being a 48-year-old male reading about adolescent sex in Forever gets me lots of stares in airports ... At this point I am an authority on menstruation.
Chuck Palahniuk
#2. Susan was already rehearsing excuses in case she was caught: I just got my period and I was looking for a tissue to stuff in my underpants. Men didn't question menstruation stories. Ever. You could probably get into the White House if you said you needed a tampon ASAP.
Chelsea Cain
#3. Menstruation not only carries with it the connotation of a productive system that has failed to produce; it also carries the idea of production gone awry, making products of no use, not to specification, unsalable, wasted, scrap.
Emily Martin
#4. Besides, adulthood is never something girls grow into. It is something they have thrust upon them, menstruation being only the first of many two-edged swords subsumed under the rubric "becoming a woman," all of them occasions to stay home from school and weep.
Nell Zink
#5. It is better for a girl to marry in such a time when she would begin menstruation at her husband's house rather than her father's home. Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#6. It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet.
Cybill Shepherd
#7. Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.
Frederick Lenz
#8. Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.
G. Stanley Hall
#9. If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.
Jim Butcher
#10. Most keep their condition secret from all but a few close friends. Interestingly, many of them say the thing they regret most is not their inability to have children but the lack of menstruation, the event they see as a monthly voucher of femaleness.
Natalie Angier
#11. I'm the guy with the good attitude towards menstruation.
Dave Foley
#12. And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped.
John Hersey
#13. The Rose has always been the premiere symbol of female sexuality. In primitive goddess cults, the five petals represented the five stations of female life - birth, menstruation, motherhood, menopause, and death. And in modern times, the flowering rose's ties to womanhood are considered more visual.
Dan Brown
#14. I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness
Aya Kito
#15. We can learn to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about gay people. The same way we have learned to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation.
Dan Savage
#16. My mind's monumental, my pen is penetration
That produce words that bleed on the pad like menstruation
Elzhi
#17. Women give birth, men take life. Therefore, men are jealous of this power. War is menstruation envy.
Greg Proops
#18. In 1790, the average age of first menstruation for European girls was just about eighteen, almost fifty percent older than today.
Howard Means
#19. On thyroid therapy, more than 90 percent of those with painful menstruation were relieved, most of them completely. The results were fully as good in converting irregular periods to normal, regular ones. And in six of seven women with excessive flow, normal flow was established.
Broda Otto Barnes
#20. While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.
Katha Pollitt
#21. In indigenous cultures including those of Native Americans, menstruation is viewed a time of positive power, rather than evidence of sin and negative power, or as a feminine inconvenience.
Joan Borysenko
#22. Early Menstruation renders the Uteri Hard & dry; so that they ought not to prompt the early appearance by obscene books, and frequent touchings.
Jill Lepore
#23. Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing about the violence of it.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#24. To be monitoring anything we fucking say. If you wanted to discuss menstruation at great length and detail, this is probably our best chance. He's always been squeamish about women, and no one likes a Peeping Tom, even if he is prime minister.
James S.A. Corey
#25. It'll be all right, Clay. Really." "So you say, but you have a persecution complex and delusions of grandeur." "That's true," Tom said, "but they're balanced out by poor self-image and ego menstruation at roughly six week intervals ...
Stephen King
#26. 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
#27. In terms of language, there were no separate words for female genitalia for thousands of years. That was mostly because women were considered pretty much the same as men, only of course flimsier, more poorly designed, and incapable of writing in the snow.
Elissa Stein And Susan Kim
#28. Push my buttons, and I'll push you off a bridge.
Karen Quan
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.
Roseanne Barr
#32. I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle along the halls with a pad like a flattened rabbit tail wadded between my legs, sopping with liver-colored blood.
Margaret Atwood
#33. Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
Paracelsus
#34. Buddy eyed me closely. His eyes were filigreed with red. I watched as he went through one of those instantaneous mood swings that only drunks and menstruating women can manage.
G.M. Ford
#36. When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.
Jeanette Winterson
#37. Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.
Florence King
#38. Never trust something that bleeds for seven days and doesn't die
Linda Kage
#39. If nature really acknowledged the so-called women's month, the entire month would have been period-pains-free.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#40. At her first bleeding a woman meets her power.
During her bleeding years she practices it.
At menopause she becomes it.
Traditional Native American saying
Lucy H. Pearce
#42. Starving whilst schooled is like a man's finding out that his wife is on her periods ... a few seconds after he took Viagra.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#43. I mean if there was any justice in the world you wouldn't even have to go to school during your period. You'd just stay home for five days and eat chocolate and cry.
Andrea Portes
