50 Quotes About Menstruation

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

It is quite a big deal. It's so extraordinary that we female humans should be linked to the moon and the tides. It'd sound like science fiction if you made it up – mysterious planetary forces making us bleed.

You see, to us, having a period was humiliating or exhilarating, instead of something that normally happened to every woman.

If only people communicated with each other, women won't have to come up with lame excuses when what we want to say is, "Our body feels like shit today. Can we please take a day off and catch up tomorrow?

Talking about the ooze that leaks out of our orifices is uncomfortable for everyone involved.

If only people didn't build this air of mystery around menstruating women, you would have caught a few of us smack dab in the middle of our excuses.

Nothing else in the world makes a man like that more afraid than five girls on their periods.

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.

...she did remember one time when she got her period, sliding open the cupboard under the bathroom sink to get a sanitary napkin; she remembered looking at the box of Stayfree pads and thinking that the box looked almost smug, seemed almost to be saying: Hello, Patty! We are your children. We are the only children you will ever have, and we are hungry. Nurse us. Nurse us on blood.