Menstrual Wisdom Quotes

“In order to reclaim our full selves, to integrate each of these aspects through which we pass over the course of our lives, we must first learn to embrace them though our cycles.”
― Lucy H. Pearce, Moon Time: Harness the Ever-Changing Energy of Your Menstrual Cycle

“The hormonal interplay inside a woman’s head creates her reality. Her hormones tell her day to day what’s important. They mold her desires and values.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosutra: The Abhijit Naskar Collection

“If only people communicated with each other, women won't have to come up with lame excuses when what we want to say is, "Our body feels like shit today. Can we please take a day off and catch up tomorrow?”
― Binati Sheth, ShhhARK WEEK

“Talking about the ooze that leaks out of our orifices is uncomfortable for everyone involved.”
― Binati Sheth, ShhhARK WEEK

“If only people didn't build this air of mystery around menstruating women, you would have caught a few of us smack dab in the middle of our excuses.”
― Binati Sheth, ShhhARK WEEK

“I looked past my bias against men.

Sometimes, men are just being curious and not rude.”
― Binati Sheth, ShhhARK WEEK

“You see, to us, having a period was humiliating or exhilarating, instead of something that normally happened to every woman.”
― Binati Sheth, ShhhARK WEEK

“[N]o one told me I was carrying the Beginning of the World.
The gibbous. The loom.”
― Sylvia Linsteadt, Our Lady of the Dark Country