Author: Cecile Richards

Quotes

You can go a lot of places or make a lot of money, but there's nothing quite like having a job where people actually say to you, 'Thanks for making my life better.'

You can go a lot of places or make a lot of money, but there's nothing quite like having a job where people actually say to you, 'Thanks for making my life better.'

- Cecile Richards

One of the things I'm proud of at Planned Parenthood is the number of health centers providing trans care, which was largely driven by young activists.

One of the things I'm proud of at Planned Parenthood is the number of health centers providing trans care, which was largely driven by young activists.

- Cecile Richards

It is not up to women of color to save this country from itself. That's on all of us. That's on all of us.

It is not up to women of color to save this country from itself. That's on all of us. That's on all of us.

- Cecile Richards

For women, access to reproductive health care isn't a political issue.

For women, access to reproductive health care isn't a political issue.

- Cecile Richards

All my life, I've been lucky to work in social justice, starting as a labor organizer working with low-wage working women.

All my life, I've been lucky to work in social justice, starting as a labor organizer working with low-wage working women.

- Cecile Richards

If you look at the workforce and the way our laws work around so many issues, it's as if women are supposed to retrofit themselves into a workplace that was never created for them.

If you look at the workforce and the way our laws work around so many issues, it's as if women are supposed to retrofit themselves into a workplace that was never created for them.

- Cecile Richards

And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.

And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.

- Cecile Richards

So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men.'

So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men.'

- Cecile Richards

Try to know where the best ice cream is in any given airport terminal.

Try to know where the best ice cream is in any given airport terminal.

- Cecile Richards

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