A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.
We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.
It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court.
No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did.
This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.
I think young people are recognizing the power of institutions, and we have to really dismantle a lot of the stigma and shame, culturally, but we also have to change things in terms of how government and institutions deal with this.
At Planned Parenthood, we see the impact of abortion stigma firsthand, in the women who delay getting reproductive health care because they fear they’ll be labeled and judged. We see the effect of stigma on doctors, health center staffers, and others who help provide abortion services. And we see the impact in laws that regulate and restrict abortion in ways that would never happen with any other medical procedure.
It is not special to be enlightened, just different. An enlightened person is someone who has dedicated not just this lifetime but thousands of lifetimes to becoming awareness.
It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life.
The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.
I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella. That’s one of my favorite lines of all time. It’s from a movie called Almost Famous. I think what it means is that life is going to throw all kinds of stuff at you, good and bad. But all you can do is get out there and try to stay dry.