Faye Wattleton Quotes

• Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can't take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can't take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right.

  Faye Wattleton

  Issues, Abortion, Fundamentals

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• My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

  Faye Wattleton

  Commitment, Army, Volunteer

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• I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is not killing is a signal of our ambivalence, a signal that we cannot say yes, it kills a fetus.

  Faye Wattleton

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "In Their Own Words: Pro-Lifers Aren’t the Only Ones Who Call Abortion Killing". townhall.com. November 30, 2015.

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• The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

  Faye Wattleton

  Leadership, Business, Storm

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• Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

  Faye Wattleton

  Witty, Rights, Choices

  Faye Wattleton (1998). “Life on the Line”

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• Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state -- and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.

  Faye Wattleton

  Men, States, Should

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• Just saying no prevents teenage pregnancy the way 'Have a nice day' cures chronic depression.

  Faye Wattleton

  Sex, Teenage, Nice

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• The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

  Faye Wattleton

  Powerful, Parent, Influence

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• As we celebrate the 100th birthday of Margaret Sanger, our outrageous and our courageous leader, we will probably find a number of areas in which we may find more about Margaret Sanger than we thought we wanted to know.

  Faye Wattleton

  Eugenics, Numbers, Leader

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• American teens have the worst of all worlds ... Our children are bombarded and confronted with sexual messages, sexual exploitation, and all manner of sexual criticism. But our society is by and large sexually illiterate.

  Faye Wattleton

  Children, Criticism, Teens

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• I have never believed in the impossible.

  Faye Wattleton

  Impossible

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• If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.

  Faye Wattleton

  Rights, Birth Control, Able

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• We've consistently seen, since the late 1990s, that more than half of women believe that abortion should be severely restricted or abolished altogether.

  Faye Wattleton

  Believe, Abortion, Half

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• Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

  Faye Wattleton

  Leadership, Fighting, Thoughtful

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• Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.

  Faye Wattleton

  Class, Effort, Revolution

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• My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

  Faye Wattleton

  Mother, Religious, Order

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• The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.

  Faye Wattleton

  Responsibility, Relieved, Workforce

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• Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.

  Faye Wattleton

  Thinking, Doors, Race

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• A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.

  Faye Wattleton

  Men, Priorities, Excellence

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• One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

  Faye Wattleton

  Women, Our Society, Way

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