Menopausal Women Quotes & Sayings

I think that the habit of gloomy poetry is very funny. It's like a special competition in losing. — Miroslav Holub

There had been so many. He had hired young ones because they were more plentiful and worked cheaper. The better of those got married and pregnant and wanted six months off. The bad ones flirted, wore tight miniskirts, and made suggestive comments. He had hired more mature women to negate any physical temptation, but, as a rule, they had been bossy, maternal, menopausal, and they had more doctors' appointments, as well as aches and pains to talk about and funerals to attend. — John Grisham

Men have this climacteric, you know, like women. Doctors deny it, but I have met some very menopausal persons in their profession. — Robertson Davies

The astounding energy of post-menopausal women (promised by Margaret Mead) is here, but the optimism to fuel it is not. The world seems ever more surely in the grip of materialism and surfaces. Image, image, image is all it sees. As an image, I'm definitely getting blurry. — Erica Jong

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in:
Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things. — Jim George

Dear god, it is years since I've prayed.
I understand the birds are holy.
I understand the body leads us to love, or

this is one way of knowing the world. — Stacie Cassarino

One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum. — Albion Fellows Bacon

I don't think that I've ever been a backup. — Joe Namath

We all go through life as puzzled monkeys. The minute we think we're any more than that, we've made a grave mistake. We're just trying to gain some meaning of it all, some understanding. The only thing we can do is buy the ticket, take the ride. And offer our barbaric yawps to the world... — Nate Jordon

Search this world and find that being who you feel has the greatest light and become their apprentice. — Frederick Lenz

When everything is calm, start thinking about your problems! When the storm begins, you will not find time! Tranquillity is a fertile soil where you can plant and reap the solutions! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop! — Edan Lepucki

But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy. — Matt De La Pena

No woman truly wants independence. She wants the freedom to choose her own master. This is also what men want. The origin of all human conflict is, possibly, disagreement about who ought and ought not to be one's master. The origin of all human happiness is, maybe, mutual agreement on the subject. — Gina Wohlsdorf

People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do. — Michael Pollan

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. — James A. Baldwin

In 1900, the average life expectancy of a US citizen was 48, so most menopausal women were dead, which is not a great place to be. — Sandra Tsing Loh