Top 10 menstruation Quotes that will Insist you Rethink about Periods
Talking about menstruation is important because it helps to dismantle cultures of shame and misinformation that have been around for thousands of years. It can be incredibly empowering to exchange ideas, experiences, and information about periods. At the same time, it can be alienating for those who are left out of the discussion.
Here I have quoted some of my favorite quotations from famous personalities. Each statement bears a diverse array of socio-psychological contexts. Hope you will also enjoy it.
“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
“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
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“Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.”
― Florence King
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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
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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
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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
Tips: you use disposable paper towels, contact lenses, cups, and cutlery, but you probably never thought about disposable underwear.
“Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you’d never know it. Isn’t that strange?”
― Margaret Cho
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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
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“Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.”
― Roseanne Barr
Tips: Use our PANDEEZ disposable underwear that was designed with your convenience in mind. It feels just like your everyday underwear.
“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
