Quotes About Menstruation

While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.

Given my swimmingly fetching cultural milieu, getting used to this bleeding business took quite a while. In the meantime, I fervently asked people why the hell this happened to us girls. Various sources consistently informed me that it was (big sigh) "just part of being a woman" (big sigh), or the good ol' standby curse we inherited from Eve.

Still, a really heavy period should cheer me up.

Girls on Periods - I'm fine. I hate you. I love you. I want ice cream. Come here. Get away. You're cute. fu.. off. fu.. that. fu.. this.

Girls only enjoy 3 weeks of a month. Cause there will always be that one week, when well all suffer from having a period. We cant run, we cant eat well, were having mood swings. We have to change pads every 5 hours and sh....

I wish men had to PMS. That way they can see what a pain in the a.. it is.

PMS allows a woman once a month to act like men do every day.

Thoughts when I'm on my period: Ah, my vagina is falling off! I'm going to die! Wow this is dumb! Why wasn't I born a boy? I hate all of you!

Periods are ridiculous girls shouldnt be punished for not getting pregnant.

Instead of getting periods once a month, can girls just get a text from mother nature saying 'You're not pregnant have a nice day!'

Dear Periods, the only reason I like you is because you're a sign that I'm not pregnant.

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?

The source of life (female) is redefined and now hated as the enemy of male life. What was once woman's power is now to be woman's curse, woman's shame. Woman's estrangement from God. In the Bible we can see the original Orwellian Newspeak occurring, in which false male imitations of menstruation and childbirth (the circumcised foreskin, the wounds of Christ) are made sacred and holy, while the real thing done

The ovaries know no bounds. They are the primary source of sex hormones that sexualize the body. Before the ovaries are able to serve up a viable egg, they are quite adept at dishing out the sex hormones. The sex hormones cause pubic hair to grow, fat to gather on the breasts and hips, the pelvis to widen, and eventually menstrual blood to flow.

Most keep their condition secret from all but a few close friends. Interestingly, many of them say the thing they regret most is not their inability to have children but the lack of menstruation, the event they see as a monthly voucher of femaleness.

heavy bleeding in the premenopausal years is in fact normal.

The Guru Granth dramatically dispels conventional taboos against female pollution, menstruation and sexuality. Menstrual bleeding is regarded as an essential, natural process. Life itself begins with it. The first Guru reprimands those who stigmatize the garment stained with menstrual blood as polluted (GG: 140).

Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.

Rachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.

“Say to the Israelites, ëA woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be unclean for seven days, as she is during the days of her menstruation.

If, however, she gives birth to a daughter, the woman will be unclean for two weeks as she is during her menstruation. Then she must continue in purification from her bleeding for sixty-six days.

When a woman has a discharge consisting of blood from her body, she will be unclean due to her menstruation for seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.

Anything on which she lies or sits during her menstruation will be unclean,

If a man lies with her and her menstrual flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days, and any bed on which he lies will become unclean.