Margaret Atwood Quotes

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

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

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

The reason I wrote 'I'm Too Young for This!' is to spare young women the suffering of hormonal loss - and it is true suffering. You can't sleep, you gain weight for no reason, you bloat for no reason, your moods are altered, and your sex drive is diminished.

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 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.

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

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

The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It's either that or your weight. In any case, if you don't do something, you could be dead by August. God, middle age is an unending insult.

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.

Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.

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.

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

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.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

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

As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

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.

It seems like women don't want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don't want what they say they want. It's very weird.

I don't like the term mid-life crisis.

My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.