Higher English Quotations

Taboo

• “Menstruation would become an enviable, boast worthy masculine event”

• “Men would brag about how long and how much”

• “Performing and queen bees would try to imitate men and pretend to have a monthly cycle”

Widespread

• “congress would fund a national institute of Dysmenorrhea to help stamp out monthly discomforts”

• “all women were relegated to poorly paid jobs because they were said to be ‘weaker.’”

• Sanitary supplies would be federally funded and free”

• “If we let them”

Women

• “and how would women be trained to react”

• “one can imagine traditional women agreeing to cut arguments with a stanch and smiring musochism”

• “oh no, that’s women’s work”

• “how could a women master any discipline?”

Illogical

• “and logic had nothing to do with it”

• “envy is natural to women”

• what would happen, for instance, if men could menstruate”

• “Penis-envy”

• “Womb-envy”

• “Conning us”