“Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.”

—  Robert A. Heinlein, book The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

credited to Lowell Stone, M.D., born 2144; chapter 15, p. 185
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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