"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 all month long?"

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This reflection on equality by Gloria Steinem resonates across generations. It highlights a fundamental truth about human nature: our continuous search for meaning in equality is what ultimately defines our character and our path forward.

About Gloria Steinem

Gloria Marie Steinem was an American journalist and social movement activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and who remained particularly prominent in the 1980s and early 1990s.

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"For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable."

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"It is a unyielding truth that justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good — an essential principle for the reflective life."

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"I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles."

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"There is…but one categorical imperative, namely, this: Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law."

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