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Girls have periods and boys jerk off. Everybody.
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.
Are you menstruating?
what?
You're angry. Women are often angry when they menstruate. It is the hormones.
Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.
For their menstrual cycle, women subconsciously want to punish men.
Menstruating doesn't cause pickles to spoil, temples to collapse or food to rot, nor is it contagious, though it would be rather nice to infect the male population with this so-called 'curse' for a month or two, just to sit back and view what I am sure would be a highly entertaining spectacle.
Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?
If I don't have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches.
The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.
This is the first language of your body. It is the word ne. When you bleed each month, as when the moon comes and goes in its journey, you leave the world of men. You enter the body of all women, who are connected to all of nature.
Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.
I mean if there was any justice in the world you wouldn't even have to go to school during your period. You'd just stay home for five days and eat chocolate and cry.
There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment.
In 1790, the average age of first menstruation for European girls was just about eighteen, almost fifty percent older than today.
I'm getting pretty worried. My girlfriend hasn't gotten her period. And she's already 14.
I opened my purse, shifted through panty shields, bills, and birth control pills - I call them poppa-stoppas - and took out my menstrual calendar.
Girls have periods and boys wank. Everybody.
You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.
If I don't have a woman every three days or so I get a terrible headache.
A girl never forgets two things: the day she started her period for the first time, and the day she met the love of her life.
Besides, adulthood is never something girls grow into. It is something they have thrust upon them, menstruation being only the first of many two-edged swords subsumed under the rubric "becoming a woman," all of them occasions to stay home from school and weep.
Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
Fall in Alabama was menopausal: hot one moment and cold the next.
Menopause is your return to where you were before, when your hormone levels are the same as a pre-adolescent girl's.
CONFESSION NO. 1 Most women find the bloating, cramping, and bitchiness of PMS bothersome at worst. I turn into a monster a week before my period ... literally.
I gain weight and lose it again in inevitable cycles.
There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.
From a May 2010 Interview, Chuck Palahniuk
Weird and creepy but true, I've been reading lots of Judy Blume. Being a 48-year-old male reading about adolescent sex in Forever gets me lots of stares in airports ... At this point I am an authority on menstruation.
Do you know how much women loathe it when guys think every show of negative emotion is tied to our menstrual cycle, like we're sheep or something?
During this period I feel as if some part of myself has been banished to another part of the world.I feel as if I cannot live my life to the full and feel everything I'm capable of feeling unless I have this love. The pleasure goes from me; the delight goes. Nothing means anything.
Menopause: it had to be the gods' ironic warning to (or just plain nasty trick on) humanity for having artificially extended the life span,
Walter, my first wife, Laila, used to throw around a quote. I don't know who said it first, but it went something like, 'If men menstruated, there would floating federal holidays for them.
Menopause. A pause while you reconsider men.
Can you take me back into town?" I say. "I can't get my voicemails."
"Why don't you calm down, D-Dub. I know you're menstruating, but everything's going to be fine. Once we get inside, I'll explain all about maxi pads, personal hygiene and the feel of a man's penis.
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
I could only imagine the carnage that would come with talking to thirteen-year-old Lucca about my period; there would be blood, sweat, and tears, most of which came from Lucca, who'd probably sob himself into a puddle of nervous sweat. I'd be the one bleeding, of course.
Everything is gestation and then birthing.
You see I've been taking these tests to tell when I'm ovulating and when I'm mostfertile. And well ... it's now."
"Oh, so you came up here for a fuck?"
Emma cringed. "Do you always have to be so crude?"
He chuckled. "I'm sorry. Would you prefer I call it an afternoon delight?" he teased.
This is about respect for women, the judgments that women make and their doctors about their reproductive health. It's an important part of who women are, their reproductive health.
There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them.
What has gotten into you lately? Save a little craziness for menopause!
Know why PMS is called PMS?" "Don't you dare," she threatened. "Only women can tell PMS jokes." "Because 'mad cow disease' was already taken.
I have those days where I'm PMSing and bloated.
She is a moron and too dumb to menstruate straight.
perhaps the best line from Shooter
Men may have wars, but women have their period. Men go off and kill each other, but women say nasty things, which is even better.
Still, a really heavy period should cheer me up.
Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.
You sat around this fucking place moping like a damn child for the last six days. If I didn't know any better, I'd say you're having your goddam man-period right now.
And then, to cap things off, I got wicked cramps and my period started ... I guess my body decided that since I already felt crappy, why not throw some nice uterus-agony on top of everything?
Pray, which day is not a women's day!?!
While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.
Estrogen is a powerful if vengeful hormone affecting a woman's fertility, moods, sleep patterns, appetite. Estrogen is the household heating oil of womanhood.
What the feckin' hell is PMS, I'd like to ken?"
"Petty Male Shit," she yelled.
When it's raining you can't find enough things to catch it in. When it's not you can stand out in the middle of the street in a dress and a funny hat and nothing's gonna make it rain. I go through periods - or spells - when I'm more receptive.
Women work overtime, do double triple duty, juggle ten balls at once
children, careers, husbands, schoolwork, housework, church work, and more work
and when one of the balls drops, we think something is wrong with us.
Women with clear, healthy skin are not Paleo-eating stress free robots who never get their periods.
Who lit the fuse on your tampon?
I'm relating to a period that doesn't exist anymore.
Forty years ago, after many years of successful use of thyroid therapy, leading gynecologists in this country and elsewhere were reporting thyroid had cured more menstrual disorders than all other medications combined. Unfortunately, that lesson seems to have been largely lost.
In this trunk," she says with a serious face, "is God's gift to women."
"Chocolate?"
"No."
"Midol?"
"What? No."
"Tampons?"
"Stop guessing," she says.
Jesus, all this thinking about my feelings and hers was probably going to give me a period.
If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.
Take your f***ing tampon out and tell me what you have to say.
It's different for girls.Girls-- Joe Jackson
Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.
There are moments in a woman's life when her heart flips in her chest, when the world suddenly seems uncommonly pink and perfect, when a symphony can be heard in the tinkle of a doorbell.
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.
Like most women, I have days where I feel like today I'm not leaving the house - you know days where you've got a spot on your nose or when you've just got off a flight, eaten fish and chips and feel really bloated - that one happens a lot to me.
Now let's go into this pharmacy and get you some god-damn tampons. My treat!
Pregnancy is uncomfortable and draining, and the end isn't in sight until it becomes unbearable.
And I lived in a dorm full of girls, all on the same damn menstrual schedule, so the fact that you're worse than all of them combined speaks volumes about your character.
In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is.
Every time a woman has a period, it's a spontaneous abortion because the egg didn't take," I said, undeterred. "Are we going to start having a funeral for every used tampon?
It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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.
Tampons. I'm constantly worrying about my stash and if I'll be able to find more.
For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.
The usual icing period (where the doctor doesn't come right away but leaves you there to freeze in your paper gown while scraping at the files on the outside of your door making you THINK he is going to come in but he doesn't) ...
I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes.
I long for periods without saying anything at all. I can be free of words now, I can lapse back into wordlessness, I can sink back into the rhythyms of transience as if into bed.
One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.
You want to know what pain is? Try running out of Advil when you've got a Category Five period. I've had cramps that would make grown men beg for a bullet between the eyes."
- Jennifer, "Beauty Queens
Women's rights, that antediluvian topic.
Hurt of this magnitude is like menopause," Phyllis tells me. I've just wiped my nose with one of the hats. She takes it from me and hands me a tissue. "Comes in hot flashes. Just when you feel like you can't take it anymore, it passes for a bit. But it comes back, boy does it.
On thyroid therapy, more than 90 percent of those with painful menstruation were relieved, most of them completely. The results were fully as good in converting irregular periods to normal, regular ones. And in six of seven women with excessive flow, normal flow was established.
Do not blame my tone of voice, my lack of patience, or my bad mood on PMS. It's not my period that's my problem.
How disposable is a woman's life? How expected. How unsurprising. How normal. How many times a week, a month, a year does that happen?
What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.
The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!
At her first bleeding a woman meets her power.
During her bleeding years she practices it.
At menopause she becomes it.
Traditional Native American saying
I'd known friends who went through this, the grim tracking of the ovulation cycle, the way making love becomes insemination, as romantic as a turkey baster. One of my college friends, in fact, had said she preferred the turkey baster. "I don't have to pretend that way,
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.
I refer to my non-productive periods as fallow times. I think they are essential.
My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flushes
I am a woman. I don't always act rationally, especially when it's a week before my period, my brain was still strung out from orgasms, and I was looking at another woman's lipstick on my man.
There are things running around out there with uteruses,son. You're going to need this.
Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work, waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
There's just one thing I want you to remember. You know those chemicals women have in them, when they've got PMS? Well, men have the very same chemicals in them all the time.
It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.
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.