Dare I Say It Quotes

“Keeping secrets is exhausting. “Coming out” as being menopausal can help evaporate any shame you feel, and it will help others shed shame as well.”
― Naomi Watts, Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I'd Known About Menopause

“So many doctors have since told me that there’s an epidemic of misdiagnosing women with everything from fibromyalgia to chronic fatigue to irritable bowel syndrome to clinical depression when, in fact, they were just perimenopausal.”
― Naomi Watts, Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I'd Known About Menopause

“What if the point of menopause is to break up with our former self? It's transitional- you need to leave behind who you were- someone the world considered young, someone who could perhaps get pregnant, someone with far more time ahead of her than behind her. It might not be easy-breezy, but you have to embrace this new person, your present self.”
― Naomi Watts, Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I'd Known About Menopause