A Quote by Radhika Apte

The menstruation taboo is ancient, and there are so many theories about it. For some, it is fear of blood, and for some, period blood is toxic. If you read the theories about menstruation, you might even laugh.

Radhika Apte

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Radhika Apte
Indian - Actress
Born: September 7, 1985

Mentioning the word 'menstruation' has always been a taboo in India. People always shy away from talking about menstruation hygiene, and the awareness about the topic is very dismal.

Radhika Apte

While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.

Katha Pollitt

Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing about the violence of it.

Lidia Yuknavitch

The taboo regarding menstruation exists across the world, even among the educated.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

Nobody in the society will talk about menstruation... it's a taboo in my country. That's why I'm branded by society as a psycho.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

I was doing some research on menstruation for a column. I read about Arunachalam Muruganantham's life and work, and his story gripped me, and that is when I sat down, wrote the first few pages, and sent them off to my editor to have a look.

Twinkle Khanna

Menstruation is a natural phenomenon and it is neither dirty, nor a taboo.

Manushi Chhillar

My vision is to make India into a 100% sanitary-pad-using country. Menstruation is no more a taboo.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish five-hundred years from now.Every theory is based on some analogy, and sooner or later the theory fails because the analogy turns out to be false. A theory in its day helps to solve the problems of the day.

Jacob Bronowski

If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.

Jim Butcher

Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by pursuing chimerical problems and theories which are false. In physical science, which is more advanced than biology, we might still cite men of science who make great discoveries by relying on false theories.

Claude Bernard

Every father, brother, and husband should know about menstruation. It is not just about women; it is about men, too.

Arunachalam Muruganantham

There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists... Many of these theories have been killed off only when some decisive experiment exposed their incorrectness... Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

Michio Kaku

Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...