Quotes About Menstruation

I'm ecstatic to be known as pad man, as it makes a difference to women's lives.

My wife was gone, all other girls failed to cooperate, so I decided to wear a pouch of animal blood myself and test out my pads by wearing them myself. The discomfort I felt for those five days cannot be explained in words; I bow to every woman on earth for going through this every month.

When I took admission in a medical college, I found that apart from the lack of education, what stopped girls from menstrual management was a limited access to sanitary pads.

I was doing some research on menstruation for a column. I read about Arunachalam Muruganantham's life and work, and his story gripped me, and that is when I sat down, wrote the first few pages, and sent them off to my editor to have a look.

Bloody biology curses women every time.

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) refers to a complex of symptoms, including panic, occurring the days just before menstruation.

Try performing with your period. Like really, and then call me back. I know Beyonce has. I know Nicki has. I know all of the legendary women have had to do that. A man can't do that.

I thought a book demystifying menstruation and talking about the simple biology of it would go a long way in making young impressionable girls surer of their bodies.

I was horrified to find out that a startling percentage of women, even in Bengaluru, do not go out or wash their hair during their periods.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

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

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.

Wow, someone woke up on the wrong side of the Midol.

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.

The consultant buys a bottle of fake blood at a theater supply store and once every lunar month, for four days, imitates having a period by putting some of this blood into the vagina and preventing it from gushing out by using a tampon. After repeating this for four months, the consultant's period will return to normal.

My vision is to make India into a 100% sanitary-pad-using country. Menstruation is no more a taboo.

Menstruation is a natural phenomenon and it is neither dirty, nor a taboo.

The taboo regarding menstruation exists across the world, even among the educated.

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.

Among women eating totally raw diets, about 50 percent entirely ceased to menstruate. A further proportion, about 10 percent, suffered irregular menstrual cycles that left them unlikely to conceive. These figures are far higher than for women eating cooked food. Healthy women on cooked diets rarely fail to menstruate, whether or not they are vegetarian. But ovarian function predictably declines in women suffering from extreme energy depletion, such as marathoners and anorexics.

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.

I mean, if there was any justice in the world you wouldn't even have to go to school during your period.

For a country such as India, whose public healthcare system is already severely strained, the lack of awareness and adaptation of safe practices by menstruating women is known to add another dimension to the overall problem.

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.