on Sundays because of an archetypal psychological response…

“Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.”

— Paracelsus

I'm the guy with the good attitude towards menstruation.

— Dave Foley

I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness

— Aya Kito

Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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,…

— Cybill Shepherd

It's not easy to diagnose because depending where the endometrial deposits are, the symptoms can be quite different. It's an unrecognized problem among teenage…

— Hilary Mantel

The taboo regarding menstruation exists across the world, even among the educated.

— Arunachalam Muruganantham

She got to you, too, huh?" I said, sliding onto the bench seat across from him. "Actually, I called her." Luca grinned. "I'm vomiting…

— Rachel Vincent

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…

— Twinkle Khanna

“Menstruation annoys the most females who lack the desire to someday fall pregnant.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“So I was forced to go to school wearing a menstrual pad belt that had been in our first aid drawer since approximately 1961.…

— Lindy West

It is better for a girl to marry in such a time when she would begin menstruation at her husband's house rather than her…

— Ruhollah Khomeini

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

— Anonymous

“The great mother whom we call Innana gave a gift to woman that is not known among men, and this is the secret of…

— Anita Diamant

“Leaders bleed, period.”

— Silvia Young