Menopause Struggle Quotes

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The object of facing up squarely to the fact of the climacteric is to acquire serenity and power. If women on the youthful side of the climacteric could glimpse what this state of peaceful potency might be, the difficulties of making the transition would be less. It is the nature of the case that life beyond the menopause is as invisible to the woman who has yet to struggle through the change as to the top of any mountain is invisible from the valley below. Calm and poise do not simply happen to the post menopausal woman, she has to fight for them.
Germain Greer
According to recent statistics, over 60 percent of all perimenopausal and postmenopausal women struggle with brain fog. The experience is so marked that it can disturb one’s sense of efficiency, especially when memory lapses crop up. It’s important to realize that forgetfulness can spike during perimenopause, which can feed fears not only of going crazy but of experiencing early dementia. In other words, we are looking at millions of women in the prime of life who suddenly feel like the rug has been pulled out from under them—blindsided by their bodies, let down by their brains, and failed by their doctors, who also may not realize that those are symptoms of menopause.
Lisa Mosconi (The Menopause Brain)
It might be a sense of disorientation, where you find yourself doing increasingly absent-minded things, like entering a room only to wonder what made you go there in the first place. Belongings may be misplaced, with milk cartons finding their way into cabinets and cereal boxes ending up in the fridge. Communication can also become a challenge. Moments of sheer panic may arise as you struggle to come up with that word on the tip of your tongue or draw a blank on something you just said, losing your train of thought. Emotions, too, can be all over the place, as if a heavy darkness is causing you to weep for no clear reason—only to be replaced a moment later by waves of irritability or even anger. And just when you hoped a good night’s sleep might resolve these issues, sleep becomes elusive.
Lisa Mosconi (The Menopause Brain)
Numerous Tamils have had to embrace pitiful deaths due to the lack of even basic medical aids. From minor girls to women approaching menopause, numerous women were gang-raped, sexually assaulted and abused. The temples of Tamil Hindus and the churches of Tamil Christians were all razed to the ground, with innumerable Tamil priests being burned to death and many Christian priests being brutally tortured before being imprisoned and killed.
Murugar Gunasingam ("The Tamil Eelam Liberation Struggle” State Terrorism and Ethnic Cleansing (1948-2009))
menopause is a call to autonomy: a response to the need, perhaps for the first time in our lives, to define ourselves and our own path. It’s a time to reclaim ourselves and tell our own story, in our own unique voice. For many women, then, menopause is a time when we pull back a little from our relationships and begin to evaluate who we imagine ourselves to be outside the frameworks set for us by others. Often, this leads to periods of intense longing for time alone. I loved my husband and valued our marriage, but throughout menopause I struggled with a serious yearning to live by myself. I couldn’t seem to reconcile the two desires: to live with him and to live without him. Because I’ve always understood that solitude is more than just a luxury: at certain times in life it’s a necessity. It’s a prerequisite for deep change, for freedom of thought and imagination.
Sharon Blackie (Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life)
With age comes a softer view. You learn to pick your battles or just walk away altogether. You learn that it’s okay to not always feel okay, and you learn to embrace the gray areas. It’s easier to stand in peace than struggle in winning every fight.
Gabrielle Jordan (Help! My Face Is Falling!: Aging: No Grace Required)