Menstrual Equity Quotes

I told my parents that I wanted to work on menstrual hygiene because I believe a girl can achieve everything if she is healthy.

Men have periods too, they just don't bleed.

I strongly feel about women's rights because I have been working for menstrual hygiene across India.

I'm ecstatic to be known as pad man, as it makes a difference to women's lives.

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.

My project for menstrual hygiene is about empowering girls.

When you come from a privileged household, we've been able to buy monthly feminine products since the first day that we got our periods. A lot of women out there have absolutely no means to be able to afford something that seems as simple and as much of a no-brainer as a feminine product. I think Monthly Gift has a really brilliant cause - giving underprivileged girls free feminine products every month.

Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?

Well, menstrual hygiene is a cause that is close to my heart.

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

My wife was gone, all other girls failed to cooperate, so I decided to wear a pouch of animal blood myself and test out my pads by wearing them myself. The discomfort I felt for those five days cannot be explained in words; I bow to every woman on earth for going through this every month.

In 1986, Gloria Steinem wrote that if men got periods, they 'would brag about how long and how much': that boys would talk about their menstruation as the beginning of their manhood, that there would be 'gifts, religious ceremonies' and sanitary supplies would be 'federally funded and free'. I could live without the menstrual bragging - though mine is particularly impressive - and ceremonial parties, but seriously: Why aren't tampons free?