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“Is it time for your period, or something?"

With unerring instinct, he'd found a great big red button, and pushed it. Wyatt fights to win, which means he fights dirty. I understand the concept because that's how I fight, too, but understanding it didn't stop me from reacting. I could practically feel my blood bubbling with steam. "What?"

He turned around, all controlled aggression, and damned if he didn't push the button again. "What is it about having a period that makes women so bitchy?"

... It was an effort, but I said as sweetly as possible, "It isn't that we're bitchier, it's that having a period makes us feel all tired and achy, so we have less tolerance for all the bullshit we normally SUFFER IN SILENCE." By the time the sentence ended the sweetness was long gone, my jaw was clenched, and I think my eyes were bugging out.

Wyatt took a step back, belatedly looking alarmed.”
― Linda Howard, Drop Dead Gorgeous

“Trust her; we girls are two sheets short of psycho when it comes to our special little time.”
― Sandi Lynn, Forever Black

“It becomes evident that Olmo hasn't really been spotting his underwear, at least not with blood. Azzy has messed with his gullibility.
Dad shoots Azzy a we'll-talk-about-this-later look. "Olmo, diarrhea and periods are very different things."
Azzy smiles maliciously. "Diarrhea is hereditary; it runs in your jeans.”
― Mya Robarts, The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story

“Leaders bleed, period.”
― Silvia Young, My FemTruth: Scandalous Survival Stories

“We knew we shouldn’t be ashamed. We weren’t ashamed. We were grown-ass women—which is obviously why we paraded to the restrooms with tampons secretly stuffed into our cardigan sleeves as though we were spies delivering encrypted information.
....We pretended that all of this was a myth. That we had neither fallopian tubes, nor menstrual cycles, nor breasts, nor moods, nor children. And then we took it as a compliment when one of the men in the office told us we had balls. So, tell us again how this wasn’t a man’s world.”
― Chandler Baker, Whisper Network

“Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.”
― Kelli Jae Baeli, Don't Fall in Love With Your Words: Fall in Love With Your Craft

“Stop mansplaining menstrution, we’ve got this.”
― Silvia Young, My FemTruth: Scandalous Survival Stories

“Where a woman is in her menstrual cycle also influences how her body metabolizes, well, anything. Researchers know this: that's why, when they do include women in trials, they design the research so that women will be participating early in their cycles, when their hormones are most similar to a man's. Periods, then, have become something of an exclusionary pathology.”
― Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

“I actually think women are generally very discreet about the whole thing (e.g. Gracie, who obviously bleeds rainbows). If guys bled out of their penises for a week of every month, you can bet we’d hear more about it.”
― Chloe Seager, Dating Disasters of Emma Nash

“Another senior librarian I interviewed that day told me that seeing the library in ruins so traumatized her that she didn't get her period for the next four months.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

“Nothing else in the world makes a man like that more afraid than five girls on their periods.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Wild Beauty

“There were so many words to describe the bleeding. Menstrue was the same as catamenia. It meant unclean blood. But what blood was clean? It always left a stain.”
― Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

“I think one of the reasons we don’t hear much about PMDD or give sufferers permission to seek help is because we don’t take women’s pain seriously. It’s just a natural burden we’re supposed to bear for being women. It’s been reported that there is a pain bias in the medical industry. It’s unclear if it’s due to a gender bias in medical staff, lack of research on women or differences between how men and women interpret and communicate pain.”
― Hannah Witton, The Hormone Diaries: The Bloody Truth About Our Periods

“It was easy for me to understand this language of blood, pain, and creation that begins with physical substance itself when one is a woman.”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada

“If it were not for advertising, only a negligible fraction of prepubescent boys who do would know what a pantyliner or a tampon is.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Leaders bleed.”
― Silvia Young, My FemTruth: Scandalous Survival Stories

“I said ‘Periods are God’s way of being mean to menâ€� and she replied ‘Periods are God’s way of giving women a break from menâ€�.”
― Steven Magee

“The smart phone is a really amazing device, but it is a bad idea to hold one next to your brain for extended periods of time.”
― Steven Magee

“Menstruation is not a problem, poor menstrual hygiene is”
― Anurag Chauhan

“For three decades I have lived within a silence that declares periods too embarrassing, too unwanted, too female to talk about out loud. I have done this for so long that I almost no longer notice it. Almost. Bur now I am sick of the silence and the secrecy and the warped idea that blood is taboo when it comes out of a vagina. Because it is just not fucking good enough. To hell with covering up, with being embarrassed, with being silent.”
― Emilie Pine, Notes To Self

“Menstruation is just a way of your body letting go of something that is no longer needed.”
― Adriana Vandelinde, English for Her: Everything You Always Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask

“I know that back when you were in seventh-grade typing class and pecking away at your Smith Corona Coronet Automatic 12, Mrs. Tegnell taught you to type a double space after a sentence-ending period, but you are no longer in the seventh grade, you are no longer typing on a typewriter, and Mrs. Tegnell is no longer looking over your shoulder.”
― Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

“Merely based on the fact that nobody questions periods, nobody talks about periods, it could be the perfect excuse to use in a pickle.”
― Binati Sheth, ShhhARK WEEK

“Thermal reflective blankets can increase illness in people that use them for long periods.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“I felt a sharp pang of...something. Maybe FOMO [Fear Of Missing Out, if we have any grandmas in the house], but I don't know, it's a little more than that. Why is this bothering me so much?
8.52 p.m.
Lol, never mind. period just started. As you were.”
― Laura Steven, A Girl Called Shameless

“You should avoid flying on a budget airline during periods of bad weather.”
― Steven Magee

“None of my friends in high school showed any signs that their insides were on fire for a quarter of their lives. Were they just really good at pretending?”
― Tiffany Haddish

“Periods; the only thing as told by my
mother defines “womanhood�
and I wondered…“blood?� So, with the theory, blood and
womanhood held no difference, and with my growing years…it
barely had any.
“You’ll know when you will grow up my child,� she said
smiling and continued, “there’s more to it than just blood.� I
wonder now if by more she meant�. The suffering, endurance, and if, above all, what defines womanhood is staying silent towards
anything and everything considering it a shame to spell out.”
― Miramoon

“The red discharge between a woman’s legs, the pain of no
scar, the misery of no wound, that either leads her to extreme
shame or a child, which I reckon were the same to my mother. Is
that what is supposed to be the essence of womanhood?”
― Miramoon

“This is women’s way of feeling time pass, that sinister clockwork inching round the roundness of the body; the slow gathering of endometrial cells, a nesting, a fluffing of pillows ready to receive guests, the ripeness of the womb, fleshy and welcoming, all neat and tidy and, yes, ready to receive guests, even one, just a casual visitor, anything. And then realisation that the arrival time has been and gone, and no one is coming; the tearing of the wallpaper, great swathes of it, and tears of disappointment, of ageing, of loneliness. The womb revolts and shudders. The painters are in.”
― Emma van Straaten, Creep: A Love Story