#periods

Is it time for your period, or something?" With unerring instinct, he'd found a great big red button, and pushed it. Wyatt fights to win, which means he fights dirty. I understand the concept because that's how I fight, too, but understanding it didn't stop me from reacting. I could practically feel my blood bubbling with steam. "What?" He turned around, all controlled aggression, and damned if he didn't push the button again. "What is it about having a period that makes women so bitchy?" ... It was an effort, but I said as sweetly as possible, "It isn't that we're bitchier, it's that having a period makes us feel all tired and achy, so we have less tolerance for all the bullshit we normally SUFFER IN SILENCE." By the time the sentence ended the sweetness was long gone, my jaw was clenched, and I think my eyes were bugging out. Wyatt took a step back, belatedly looking alarmed. ↗

— Linda Howard

#menstration #periods #women #humor

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#fiction #history #inexhaustible #limit #lived

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means. ↗

— Chris Ware

#also #during #earlier #false #found

I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one's work. ↗

— Bernard Hinault

#becoming #believe #bike #i #i believe

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#die #i #life #my life #periods

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember. ↗

— John le Carre

#entered #historic #i #i can #madness

When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#does #done #goes #household #how

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey. ↗

— Princess Diana

#always #carried #difficult #eased #journey

I would stay on, but 'General Hospital' honestly doesn't seem to want that relationship with this character at the moment. They want little short doses during sweeps periods. ↗

— Genie Francis

#doses #during #general #honestly #hospital

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life. ↗

— Barney Frank

#american life #clinton #code #economic #increase