Period Stigma Quotes

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The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy award voter with a tampon in her purse.

I'm the first girl to say the word 'period' on television.

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

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.

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

You know in sixth grade, when they made all of us girls go into this other room and watch a video about getting our periods and stuff? I bet while we were gone, the boys were watching a video about how to look at each other in that infuriating way.

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

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

It was tough to cope with the pressure of having to talk about menstruation, but now with 'Newsweek' splashing it as the cover story, I thing the point I wished to make has found its mark.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Are you getting your period?" She narrows her eyes. No! God. I hate that. I hate when every negative act is blamed on your period." Sometimes bitchiness is just bitchiness, happily unattached to anything hormonal. It should get full credit.

I want to have tampons as merch that say ‘Periods are punk.'

Try performing with your period. Like really, and then call me back. I know Beyonce has. I know Nicki has. I know all of the legendary women have had to do that. A man can't do that.

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.

Food banks have told us of the increasing donations of, and demand for, tampons and pads which are gratefully received by women struggling to afford them.