Famous quotes containing the words menstrual and/or pain:
“It is not menstrual blood per se which disturbs the imagination—unstanchable as that red flood may be—but rather the albumen in the blood, the uterine shreds, placental jellyfish of the female sea. This is the chthonian matrix from which we rose. We have an evolutionary revulsion from slime, our site of biologic origins. Every month, it is woman’s fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)
“Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.”
—English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, no. 4321 (1732)