Lois Lowry Quotes

My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flushes

Right now I don't call it the menopause, I call it men-on-pause.

The literature of menopause is the saddest, the most awful, and the most medical of all genres. You're sleepless, you're anxious, you're fat, you're depressed - and the advice is always the same: take more walks, eat some kale, and drink lots of water. It didn't help.

I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die.

I did many interviews, and went out and talked to many people and went to rallies. It was the same thing with menopause. I traveled around the country on talk shows and talking to women about.

Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.

One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully.

I will not tolerate your menopausic outbursts.

Every woman is different when they go through menopause, and... I didn't know emotionally how I would feel.

I saw my mother go through surgical menopause, and at 35, I wasn't ready for that. I wasn't ready for the complications, like bone loss as a result of early menopause, that my mother had.

If I don't take estrogen hormone replacement therapy, I can get osteoporosis.

Menopause. A pause while you reconsider men.

In my case, when it arrived at 49, perimenopause was terrifying and like nothing I had ever before physically experienced.

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

I feel special. Most women will have only one menopause, and they will hate it. I will have two, and when the second one comes, I will know what is coming. I am having my extra menopause as a cure. I have endometriosis.

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

When the brain perceives you are no longer reproductive because your hormones are out of balance, it tries to get rid of you, and it usually activates the cancers in perimenopause.

I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.

I don't like any of it. I'm sick and tired of menopause.

All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.

What has gotten into you lately? Save a little craziness for menopause!

I'm what is known as perimenopausal. "Peri", some of you may know, is a Latin prefix meaning 'SHUT YOUR FLIPPIN' PIE HOLE'.

The menopause is probably the least glamorous topic imaginable; and this is interesting, because it is one of the very few topics to which cling some shreds and remnants of taboo. A serious mention of menopause is usually met with uneasy silence; a sneering reference to it is usually met with relieved sniggers. Both the silence and the sniggering are pretty sure indications of taboo.

I had some real health complications with my HRT - hormone replacement therapy.