Ekta Kapoor Quotes

Why are we so terrified of a natural process that allows for life to be brought into this world? Why do we scramble to hide our tampons when we pull them out of our purses?

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.

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

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

I was horrified to find out that a startling percentage of women, even in Bengaluru, do not go out or wash their hair during their periods.

To break the age-old taboos and to see girls and women use pads was a difficult task.

Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?

Men have periods too, they just don't bleed.

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?

Everything that has to do with sex is somehow... it's the best thing in the world, and it's still the one thing people don't want you to talk about.

Menstruation not only carries with it the connotation of a productive system that has failed to produce; it also carries the idea of production gone awry, making products of no use, not to specification, unsalable, wasted, scrap.

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.

I already have a pet project called Project Shakti and it aims on educating women on menstruation cycle.

Nobody in the society will talk about menstruation... it's a taboo in my country. That's why I'm branded by society as a psycho.

The government should include menstrual hygiene in the curriculum.

We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them.

There are so many things we don't know about because they don't get spoken about, and people might be embarrassed to speak up or might be shamed into not speaking up.

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

When I tell a foreign audience that 90 per cent of Indian women have no access to sanitary napkin, there is a visible disbelief. But there is hardly a ripple when I say the same thing to an Indian crowd.

Mentioning the word 'menstruation' has always been a taboo in India. People always shy away from talking about menstruation hygiene, and the awareness about the topic is very dismal.

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

There's such a stigma around girls' periods, and women's sexuality - girls can't speak out for themselves or be who they want to be. I think that coming from the social platform that I have, I try to be a positive influence, and this was something that I felt needed to be seen and heard.

Max: What's a period? George: It's a bullet we dodge, go get ready.

Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful.

I can't say that period talk is my favorite bonding arena. But I also think it's sort of funny.