Best 15 quotes of Faye Wattleton on MyQuotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

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

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

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