Emma Barnett Quotes

Women censoring themselves from talking about their periods is the final hangover from a time which demanded that we should be seen and not heard;

endometriosis is as common as type 2 diabetes, but research into it is scant and still nobody knows what causes it and how to control it.

1 in 10 girls are unable to afford sanitary wear

Menstruation is the only blood that is not born from violence, yet it’s the one that disgusts you the most.

when the folks who make their money from periods don’t even show red liquid on mainstream TV,

We can’t continue as a human race without periods – and yet we still can’t acknowledge their existence. In the twenty-first century.

The UK only welcomed its first female submariners in 2014. That’s nearly a full hundred years after women had the right to vote.

1985 marked the first time the word ‘period’ was actually uttered on American TV, in a Tampax advert. Up until that point, sanitary brands hadn’t been able to say the very word

No woman ever thought ‘oooh you know what? I am going to indulge myself in a little luxury this month and buy a box of tampons! What a naughty treat’.

nobody knows what causes endometriosis and there is still no treatment to rid the body of it.

I loathe my period. Really, I do. I cannot wait for the day it buggers off. For good. But shall I tell you what I loathe even more? Not being able to talk about it. Freely, funnily and honestly. Without women and men wrinkling their noses in disgust as if I’d just pulled my tampon out, swung it in their face and offered it as an hors d’oeuvre.

Girl! You are a super hero. Who else could bleed for a week and not die.