Bleeding Quote by Ruth Simmons

Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families. The whole idea…

— Ruth Simmons

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

— Radhika Apte

For a country such as India, whose public healthcare system is already severely strained, the lack of awareness and adaptation of safe practices by…

— Shabana Azmi

Are you with women who only bleed monthly on their cycles?

— Leslie Feinberg

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

— Arunachalam Muruganantham

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.

— Arunachalam Muruganantham

When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky to be…

— Joyce Banda

“In indigenous cultures including those of Native Americans, menstruation is viewed a time of positive power, rather than evidence of sin and negative power,…

— Joan Borysenko

Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the…

— Christiane Northrup

“The most significant source of my adolescent period anxiety was the fact that, in America in 2016 (and far more so in 1993), acknowledging…

— Lindy West

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

— Manushi Chhillar

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

— Tori Amos