Emily Martin Quotes

I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle along the halls with a pad like a flattened rabbit tail wadded between my legs, sopping with liver-colored blood.

You look pale, Sansa," Cersei observed. "Is your red flower still blooming?" "Yes" "How apt. The men will bleed out there, and you in here.

My wife was gone, all other girls failed to cooperate, so I decided to wear a pouch of animal blood myself and test out my pads by wearing them myself. The discomfort I felt for those five days cannot be explained in words; I bow to every woman on earth for going through this every month.

Every father, brother, and husband should know about menstruation. It is not just about women; it is about men, too.

Before anyone else, women need to accept that neither does life stop, nor does it change for those few days in a month.

You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.

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?

I have those days where I'm PMSing and bloated.

Women are venomous during the time of their menses and so very dangerous that they poison beasts with their glance and little children in their cots, sully and stain mirrors, and on some occasions those men who lie with them in carnal intercourse are made leprous.

The government should include menstrual hygiene in the curriculum.

We have to stop using words like 'that time of the month' or other such variations. Say it: I have my periods. There is nothing to be shy or embarrassed about.

Menstruation is a natural phenomenon and it is neither dirty, nor a taboo.

I told my parents that I wanted to work on menstrual hygiene because I believe a girl can achieve everything if she is healthy.

Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

Mom says it's because she has PMS. Do you even know what that means? "I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome

Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.

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.

It is during fertility that a female loses herself and enters that cloud overly rich in estrogen.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

I would cite your little screed (which I am sure you are now sorry for) as a typical example of an ordinarily controlled woman under the raging hormonal imbalance of the periodic lunar cycle – thus proving the point against which you rail.

I've taken Midol before. My daughters find that hilarious. I had a headache and cramps, and there were no other pain relievers with caffeine in the house.

We'd love to create feminine hygiene products.

Unproductive effort is never a good thing.

A problem shared is a problem halved, but as with so many problems affecting women - periods, menopause, post-natal depression - we often feel embarrassed, as if we're moaning or just plain wrong to air them.