Quotes About The Menopause

#1. Right now I don't call it the menopause, I call it men-on-pause.

Marie Osmond

#2. Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

Jean Baudrillard

#3. with a woman's life expectancy at eighty-four years, it is reasonable to expect that she will not only live thirty to forty years beyond menopause, but be vibrant, sharp, and influential as well. The menopause you will experience is not your mother's (or grandmother's) menopause.

Christiane Northrup

#4. With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'

Rachel Johnson

#5. Retirement is the menopause of an employee's mind and hands.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#6. You go into the book store, there's the cut-out of Dr. Phil, and then the dreaded women's health section where every book, instead of the menopause book with the fanged Medusa head on the cover that might be more pertinent, you always see a flower and a poppy and a daisy and a stethoscope.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#7. Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.

Omar Sharif

#8. Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.

Ann Richards

#9. So, more times than not, but not every time, it can be linked to a medical problem, such as menopause, cancer, chronic pain, it can be linked to anxiety and depression. Those are the more common causes.

Shelby Harris

#10. Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself.

Germaine Greer

#11. I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

Christina Ricci

#12. Together, the hypothalamus, pituitary, and ovary form a trio that plays a wonderful song of fertility from puberty to menopause.

Trisha Gura

#13. Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.

Stevie Nicks

#14. 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

#15. Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.

Fannie Flagg

#16. On a planet where for thousands of years, even today, a woman's worth has been judged exclusively by the productivity of her womb, what the hell is the point of a barren woman?

Elissa Stein And Susan Kim

#17. Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.

Rik Mayall

#18. Hello, my sister, Libby, also your daughter, is snogging a potato in my bed. What are you going to do about it?' Dad started yelling uncontrollably. I wonder if he is having the male menopause? If he starts growing breasts, I will definitely be running away with the circus.

Louise Rennison

#19. Menopause: it had to be the gods' ironic warning to (or just plain nasty trick on) humanity for having artificially extended the life span,

Haruki Murakami

#20. I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.

Ian McShane

#21. Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause

Julie Burchill

#22. 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

#23. Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#24. It's such a cold night and it's the only time I've actively been grateful for menopause. I've been entirely comfortable.

Emma Thompson

#25. Hurt of this magnitude is like menopause," Phyllis tells me. I've just wiped my nose with one of the hats. She takes it from me and hands me a tissue. "Comes in hot flashes. Just when you feel like you can't take it anymore, it passes for a bit. But it comes back, boy does it.

Tarryn Fisher

#26. Menopause is your return to where you were before, when your hormone levels are the same as a pre-adolescent girl's.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#27. She'd always had a short fuse but lately she was positively electric and could burst into flame anywhere, anytime ... When she was out of the shower, dry and cool, she had one of those reprieves that came regularly - she felt perfectly normal, sane and in control. Then came the inevitable guilt ...

Robyn Carr

#28. I did many interviews, and went out and talked to many people and went to rallies. It was the same thing with menopause. I traveled around the country on talk shows and talking to women about.

Cybill Shepherd

#29. According to the Western model, pregnancy is a disease, menopause is a disease, and even getting pregnant is a disease. Dangerous drugs and devices are given to women, but not to men- just for birth control. I've reached the conclusion that to many doctors BEING A WOMAN IS A DISEASE

Barbara Seaman

#30. The literature of menopause is the saddest, the most awful, and the most medical of all genres. You're sleepless, you're anxious, you're fat, you're depressed - and the advice is always the same: take more walks, eat some kale, and drink lots of water. It didn't help.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#31. Nona had been bonkers since I could remember. Dad said it was menopause, but I had looked that up once, and I highly doubted that was the case.

Holly Hood

#32. Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as if we think motherhood is the default setting for a woman's life from first period to menopause, and she needs a note from God not to say yes to every zygote that knocks on her door.

Katha Pollitt

#33. Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work, waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.

Adrienne Rich

#34. I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

Dave Barry

#35. I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.

Isabel Allende

#36. I'm not sure anyone goes through a cancer scare unchanged. I know it changed me in so many ways. But I was fortunate to have had a rare cancer that's slow-growing and one that allowed me to skip the chemical cocktails that would have put me into early menopause.

Susan McBride

#37. The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It's either that or your weight. In any case, if you don't do something, you could be dead by August.
God, middle age is an unending insult.

Dorothea Benton Frank

#38. If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.

Gail Sheehy

#39. I call the Change of Life "Orchids" because menopause is such an ugly word. It's got men in it for goddsakes.

Lisa Jey Davis

#40. You can do this (this thing, where your body will cease to produce hormones and your skin, hair, muscles and bones ... basically every part of you will notice, go into withdrawals, and stage a coup). Be prepared for this mentally, and you'll own this thing.

Lisa Jey Davis

#41. In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#42. The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if they can make women fertile after menopause.

Patricia Schroeder

#43. I feel special. Most women will have only one menopause, and they will hate it. I will have two, and when the second one comes, I will know what is coming. I am having my extra menopause as a cure. I have endometriosis.

Rose George