Day 1,096: menopause

Most women are said to go through menopause (UK also the menopause) between the ages of 45 and 55.

Artwork of the day 
Moon Woman
Jackson Pollock
Date: 1942
Style: Abstract Expressionism
Period: Early works
Genre: figurative
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Dimensions: 175.2 x 109.3 cm

Word of the day 
menopause: the time in a woman's life when she gradually stops having periods (= blood flow from her uterus each month)

Quote of the day
“A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity.”
― Florence King