Quotes About Menstruation

When it's that time of the month, try natural remedies to ease your discomfort. For example, drinking raspberry tea eases cramps, and chamomile tea relaxes you. Essential oils, herbal teas, and elevating your legs while lying down are time-proven solutions. A heating pad and sprinkling lavender oil around the room works wonders, too. Get plenty of rest and relax. As my grandmother would say to me, "This too shall pass," and it always does.

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

Whatever the superior group has will be used as proof of its superiority. Thus, if men could menstruate, it would become a great thing. Without this inbuilt measure of time and the movements of the universe, how could any woman become a mathematician? An astronomer?

Yes, my uterus was removed Ã¢â'¬â€ peritonitis had set in. But it is wonderful. I am no longer bothered with the monthly period.

If men ever got periods, believe me, you'd all be in a ball on the ground from cramps.

Why periods? Why can't Mother Nature just send a text message: "What'z up, Girl? You ain't pregnant. Have a great week! Talk next month."

Women give birth, men take life. Therefore, men are jealous of this power. War is menstruation envy.

Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle.

Many religions over the years have suggested that when a woman is menstruating, she should be avoided and not touched.

My old man taught me to never trust anything that bleeds for three days and doesn't die.

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.

My novel is sponsored by Tampax. It's the story of three generations of women and spans three decades. That's a lot of menstruation. So every time a character rides the cotton pogo stick—Voilà! Tampax.

Mrs. Fletcher tells Mom over and over that she should be making more conversation with me, because apparently I'm at a "dangerous age." (She's got to be talking about menstruation. I haven't started yet, but there's probably some risk of bleeding to death if you're taken unawares the first time. I won't be caught unawares, though. That's not how I'm going out.)

When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.

I am magical: I can bleed for five days and not die.

I forget to mention the heavy menstrual bleeding and the pain.

We have to stop using words like 'that time of the month' or other such variations. Say it: I have my periods. There is nothing to be shy or embarrassed about.

Nobody gets their period for the first time and has a nervous breakdown next to a Kohler toilet. Men have such stupid ideas about menstruation, don't they, Julie?

Make up your mind beforehand what you want to tell your doctor. Write down a list of your important signs, symptoms, complaints and worries. Women who have not yet gone through the menopause should take along details of their last few periods.

If diamonds are a girl's best friend, I wonder if blood diamonds are a girl's best friend 5 days out of the month?

Many of us know more about the workings of our car than we do the reproductive cycle.

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.

Being overwhelmed by sadness and then realizing its just being pmsy is bittersweet...you know why...but you're still sad...and bleeding.

When additional emphasis is placed upon these officiants being celibate and male (to avoid the pollution of menstruation), then the importance of ritual purity for many Christians, though they may have become unaware of it through familiarity, becomes obvious. Perhaps no more need be said, but the Christian view of the Blessed Virgin Mary might be a fruitful area for further exploration.