Famous quotes containing the words absorb, menstrual and/or flow:
““This is what my learning
Teaches,” the Aquarian said,
“To absorb life through the pores
For the life around you is dead.””
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your menstrual blood—if it makes you sick, you’ve a long way to go, baby.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“Our sense of these things changes and they change,
Not as in metaphor, but in our sense
Of them. So sense exceeds all metaphor.
It exceeds the heavy changes of the light.
It is like a flow of meanings with no speech
And of as many meanings as of men.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)