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Gloria Steinem

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave al

Gloria Steinem

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The quote challenges the common belief that women are more emotional and less rational during the start of their menstrual cycle, a time when hormone levels are actually low. It points out that if emotions are tied to hormones, then women should act more like men during those days, since men have lower levels of the same hormone.

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