Menstruation Quotes

• 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

  Blood, Modern, Source

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• Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?

  Margaret Cho

  Half, World, Strange

  Margaret Cho (2006). “I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Well Known, Wells, Known

  G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.428, Read Books Ltd

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• 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

  Moon, Men, Blood

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• 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

  Would Be, Women's Health, Fields

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• Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Dirty, Enlightenment

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• 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

  Men, Blood, Hearing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Moon, Waxing, Three

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• I'm the guy with the good attitude towards menstruation.

  Dave Foley

  Attitude, Guy, Good Attitude

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• I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness

  Aya Kito

  Real, Illness, Weak

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• In 1986, Gloria Steinem wrote that if men got periods, they 'would brag about how long and how much': that boys would talk about their menstruation as the beginning of their manhood, that there would be 'gifts, religious ceremonies' and sanitary supplies would be 'federally funded and free'. I could live without the menstrual bragging - though mine is particularly impressive - and ceremonial parties, but seriously: Why aren't tampons free?

  Jessica Valenti

  Religious, Party, Boys

  "The case for free tampons?" by Jessica Valenti, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2014.

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• My mind's monumental, my pen is penetration
  That produce words that bleed on the pad like menstruation

  Elzhi

  Mind, Pads, Penetration

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• When a woman is making love with a man, a sense of heat in her brain, which brings forth with it sensual delight, communicates the taste of that delight during the act and summons forth the emission of the man's seed. And when the seed has fallen into its place, that vehement heat descending from her brain draws the seed to itself and holds it, and soon the woman's sexual organs contract and all parts that are ready to open up during the time of menstruation now close, in the same way as a strong man can hold something enclosed in his fist.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Strong, Men, Making Love

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• 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

  Arms, Judgment, Break

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.3290, Penguin

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• 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

  Pms, Fertility, Flow

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• It's not easy to diagnose because depending where the endometrial deposits are, the symptoms can be quite different. It's an unrecognized problem among teenage girls, and it's something that every young woman who has painful menstruation should be aware of... It's a condition that is curable if it's caught early. If not, if it's allowed to run on, it can cause infertility, and it can really, really mess up your life.

  Hilary Mantel

  Girl, Running, Teenage

  "Mantel Takes Up Betrayal, Beheadings In 'Bodies'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 26, 2012.

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• 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

  Girl, Daughter, Husband

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• On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have no hesitation in administering to her strong doses of pain, and she can do nothing but submit passively to the regimen prescribed. On the other hand, as regards sexual attraction, which is necessary for the act of impregnation, and as regards the erotic pleasures experienced during the act itself, the woman may be on an equal footing with the man.

  Princess Marie Bonaparte

  Strong, Pain, Pregnancy

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• 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

  Baby, Thinking, Blood

  "The Female Eunuch". Book by Germaine Greer, 1970.

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• Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families. The whole idea of fertility regulation was still extremely new in this setting and many husbands and other family members were angry when they found out that women had decided on their own to use the method and had gone to the clinic in secret.

  Ruth Simmons

  Husband, Ideas, Social Taboos

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• The statistic that 67 percent of women's admissions to the psychiatric facilities are during the week before menstruation is critically important to every woman, and to every woman who feels she suffers from depression.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Suffering, Important, Week

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• She got to you, too, huh?" I said, sliding onto the bench seat across from him. "Actually, I called her." Luca grinned. "I'm vomiting from a possible case of food poisoning. You?" "Sudden onset menstruation." He nodded respectfully. "Classic." "Yeah, but I should have gone for something more long-term. Yours will get you out of the whole afternoon. Ferris Bueller would be proud.

  Rachel Vincent

  Should Have, Long, Vomiting

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, June 26, 2012.

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• Nobody had counseled women to expect the changes in bleeding patterns which are typically associated with IUD use, and they received no support from the health clinics with their problems. Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families.

  Ruth Simmons

  Social Taboos, Support, Culture

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• 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

  Bible, Learning, Gay

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