" I kept a record of my periods, and would ask for the next meeting to be on the full moon, in my apartment. Most of them responded with a nervous negative, and the reason wasn't that they considered my proposition peculiar; it was because I blurted it out as if I was playing Russian roulette. And because of my bulging red-faced blondeness, my coming-apart-at-the-seams ways of speaking, and a pair of eyes whose futile, terrifying shipwreck said it all. "

― Elvira Navarro , La trabajadora