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

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.

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.

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

Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.

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

The government should include menstrual hygiene in the curriculum.

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

I was ten. I had noticed something was weird earlier in the day, but I knew from commercials that one's menstrual period was a blue liquid that you poured like laundry detergent onto maxi pads to test their absorbency. This wasn't blue, so... I ignored it for a few hours.

I'm not a period babe. Not at all.

He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon strings seemed so beautiful as they rolled up and down with the wind, landing on the ground and then twirling and floating up again, falling and rising and falling and rising.

We'd love to create feminine hygiene products.

I was doing some research on menstruation for a column. I read about Arunachalam Muruganantham's life and work, and his story gripped me, and that is when I sat down, wrote the first few pages, and sent them off to my editor to have a look.

Well, menstrual hygiene is a cause that is close to my heart.

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

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.

The use of sanitary pads and the dos and don'ts should be discussed with openness so as to make a hygienic and healthy life for the women.

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

As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood.

The tent in which she first met him had smelled of blood, of the death she did not understand, and still she had thought of it all as a game. She had promised him the world. His flesh in the flesh of his enemies. And much too late had she realized what he had sown in her. Love. Worst of all poisons.

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

If diamonds are a girl's best friend, I wonder if blood diamonds are a girl's best friend 5 days out of the month?