Faith Salie Quotes

The pill was the liberation of the spirit of women.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

With the development of the [birth control] pill, “womanhood” would no longer mean the same thing as “motherhood”.

To me, the biggest revolution of the 20th century was the pill.

Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.

Contraception doesn't define a woman.

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision makers.

Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy.

Look at somebody like Margaret Sanger, who was married young and had kids but then left her husband and wound up living a kind of single life as she got into the founding of what would become Planned Parenthood.

If you want to truly stand up for women's reproductive rights, then stand against birth control. Because nothing says anti-woman more than birth control.

I had a very feminist mother who exposed me not only to Planned Parenthood - my first job - but also to Betty Friedan and Colette and Naomi Wolf.

I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception. They have every right to know about their own bodies. I would strikeout--I would scream from the housetops. I would tell the world what was going on in the lives of these poor women. I would be heard. No matter what it should cost. I would be heard.

Birth control is the means by which woman attains basic freedom.

We need to respect choices that women make.

Whether we are talking about access to affordable birth control, feeling safe from violence in our homes, or being able to earn the same amount of money as our male counterparts, these are rights that all people deserve, and they are being threatened.

Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

I want to empower women.

I'm really inspired by playing strong women. Anything that I can be a part of like that, to be a role model for young women.

I wanted to be an empowered woman, and I became an empowered woman. And now I want to empower every woman. And I do it through my clothes, I do it through my words, I do it through my money, I do it through everything.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?

If you wear short skirts you get your femininity back.

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.