Quotes about Menstruation

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There is a bench in the back of my garden shaded by Virginia creeper, climbing roses, and a white pine where I sit early — Mary Rose O'Reilley, The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
Then he started his period.One week in bed.Two doctors in.Three painkillers four times a day.And later a letter to the p — Carol Ann Duffy, Selected Poems
Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself. — Roseanne Barr
A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as — Florence King
..by honouring the demands of our bleeding, our blood gives us something in return. The crazed bitch from irritation hel — Inga Muscio, Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five o — Florence King
I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurs — Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
Women are females and men are males. According to gynaecologists, women menstruate every month or so, while men, being m — Muammar Gaddafi, The Green Book
In terms of language, there were no separate words for female genitalia for thousands of years. That was mostly because — Elissa Stein and Susan Kim
At her first bleeding a woman meets her power. During her bleeding years she practices it. At menopause she becomes it. — Lucy H. Pearce, Moon Time: Harness the Ever-Changing Energy of Your Menstrual Cycle
It takes a lot of time, focus and energy to realize the enormity of being the ocean with your very own tide every month. — Inga Muscio, Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
Starving whilst schooled is like a man’s finding out that his wife is on her periods … a few seconds after he took Viagr — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Ladies haven't the luxury of being squeamish about blood. — Mackenzie Lee
Attitudes towards menstrual blood in contemporary Western culture still circle around the subject with a mixture of deni — Ruth McPhee, Female Masochism in Film: Sexuality, Ethics and Aesthetics
If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
...she did remember on time when she got her period, sliding open the cupboard under the bathroom sink to get a sanitary — Stephen King, It
It was 1976.It was one of the darkest days of my life when that nurse, Mrs. Shimmer, pulled out a maxi pad that measured — Laurie Notaro, The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life
The hormonal interplay inside a woman’s head creates her reality. Her hormones tell her day to day what’s important. The — Abhijit Naskar, Neurosutra: The Abhijit Naskar Collection
One day the girl is taking a bath and calls out. The widow comes into the tiny bathroom and the water surrounding the gi — Lidia Yuknavitch, The Small Backs of Children
Push my buttons, and I'll push you off a bridge.  — Karen Quan, Write like no one is reading