These menopause quotes will inspire you. Menopause is the time that marks the end of your menstrual cycles.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging menopause quotes, menopause sayings, and menopause proverbs.
Best Menopause Quotes
- “I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.” ~ Ian McShane
- “I did many interviews, and went out and talked to many people and went to rallies. It was the same thing with menopause. I traveled around the country on talk shows and talking to women about.” ~ Cybill Shepherd
- “If men went through menopause, we’d know everything about it, but we still don’t even know if we should be taking hormones.” ~ Joycelyn Elders
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“Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.” ~ Stevie Nicks
- “It’s okay to talk about birth, okay – then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women’s health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet.” ~ Cybill Shepherd
- “Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.” ~ Jean Baudrillard
- “Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause, you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.” ~ John Wayne
- “Women know when they’ve got the menopause but men don’t quite know. They know it afterwards.” ~ Omar Sharif
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“I certainly hope I’m not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.” ~ Christina Ricci
- “The menopause is probably the least glamorous topic imaginable; and this is interesting because it is one of the very few topics to which cling some shreds and remnants of taboo. A serious mention of menopause is usually met with uneasy silence; a sneering reference to it is usually met with relieved sniggers. Both the silence and the sniggering are pretty sure indications of taboo.” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
- “I’m enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It’s just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.” ~ Roseanne Barr , Menopause quotes life
- “According to the Western model, pregnancy is a disease, menopause is a disease, and even getting pregnant is a disease. Dangerous drugs and devices are given to women, but not to men- just for birth control. I’ve reached the conclusion that to many doctors BEING A WOMAN IS A DISEASE” ~ Barbara Seaman
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“Menopause. A pause while you reconsider men.” ~ Margaret Atwood
- “Scientists have found a way to keep middle-aged female mice from going through menopause. Now they’re working on a way to keep middle-aged male mice from buying expensive sports cars.” ~ Conan O’Brien
- “I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.” ~ Dave Barry
- “A study says owning a dog makes you 10 years younger. My first thought was to rescue two more, but I don’t want to go through menopause again.” ~ Joan Rivers
- “It’s such a cold night and it’s the only time I’ve actively been grateful for menopause. I’ve been entirely comfortable.” ~ Emma Thompson
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“Rock and menopause do not mix.” ~ Stevie Nicks
- “Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
- “If menopause is the silent passage, ‘male menopause’ is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman’s life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.” ~ Gail Sheehy
- “The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It’s either that or your weight. In any case, if you don’t do something, you could be dead by August. God, middle age is an unending insult.” ~ Dorothea Benton Frank
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“Right now I don’t call it the menopause, I call it men-on-pause.” ~ Marie Osmond
- “So, more times than not, but not every time, it can be linked to a medical problem, such as menopause, cancer, chronic pain, it can be linked to anxiety and depression. Those are the more common causes.” ~ Shelby Harris
- “Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It’s as if we think motherhood is the default setting for a woman’s life from first period to menopause, and she needs a note from God not to say yes to every zygote that knocks on her door.” ~ Katha Pollitt
- “Menopause, perimenopause, childbirth and breast-feeding can all cause a woman’s sex drive to shut down.” ~ Drew Pinsky
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“God, middle age is an unending insult.” ~ Dorothea Benton Frank
- “When I was going through menopause, I didn’t sleep. I didn’t sleep for two years and ended up blowing out my thyroid, and I became nonfunctional. It’s difficult to remain fully present if I’m not getting enough sleep, so I work at getting enough.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment,” Murphy interrupted, “I will break your arm in eleven places.” ~ Jim Butcher
- “Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work, waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.” ~ Adrienne Rich
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“What has gotten into you lately? Save a little craziness for menopause!” ~ Woody Allen
- “Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent
of their bone mass.” ~ Ann Richards - “You know what? I am actually not that much into voting. I think it’s kinda crazy that a woman is running, because I think that women deal with a lot of emotions and menopause and PMS and stuff. Like, I’m so moody all the time, I know I couldn’t be able to run a country, ‘cause I’d be crying one day and yelling at people the next day, ya know?” ~ Brooke Hogan
- “Other people get moody in their forties and fifties – men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.” ~ Rik Mayall
- “Thank God I’m over the hill. The only heat I have left comes from hot flashes, my promiscuity is confined to the words “one size fits all,” and I buy my white cotton unmentionables at Boadicea’s Retreat, not Victoria’s Secret. None of the things men do to women could possibly happen to me now unless the U.S. is invaded by one of those new Russian republics whose soldiers aren’t fussy.” ~ Florence King
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“Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause.” ~ Julie Burchill
- “A married guy is responsible for everything, no matter what. Women, thanks to their having been oppressed all these years, are blameless, free as birds, and all the dirt they do is the result of premenstrual syndrome or postmenstrual stress or menopause or emotional disempowerment by their fathers or low expectations by their teachers or latent unspoken sexual harassment in the workplace, or some other airy excuse. The guy alone is responsible for every day of marriage that is less than marvelous and meaningful.” ~ Garrison Keillor
- “Hello, my sister, Libby, also your daughter, is snogging a potato in my bed. What are you going to do about it?’ Dad started yelling uncontrollably. I wonder if he is having the male menopause? If he starts growing breasts, I will definitely be running away with the Circus.” ~ Louise Rennison
- “I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth, and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.” ~ Isabel Allende
