“The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy.” LanguageWomenBooks Book:The Bookbinder Source: The Bookbinder
“Menstruosity was the condition of being menstruous. And menstruous had once meant horribly filthy or polluted. Menstruous. Like monstrous. It came closest to explaining how I felt. Lizzie had called it “The Curse". She had never heard of menstruation and laughed when I said it.” WomenFeminismDefinitionsFemininityMenstruationVaginas Book:The Dictionary of Lost Words Source: The Dictionary of Lost Words