#menstruation

A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity. ↗

— Florence King

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#menopause #menstruation #women #age

Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap. ↗

— Florence King

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#menstruation #women #change

When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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#change