Christie Hefner Quotes

Women in America... cannot trust Mitt Romney to protect our health.

As the father of two daughters, the ongoing struggle for women's equality is very personal for me. That's why it has been an honor during my time in Congress to support women's rights by advocating for reproductive rights, equal pay, access to paid maternity leave and quality child care.

I can assure you that women all over the country are paying close attention to the GOP 'War on Women.'

All my politics and campaigning has been around issues that affect women: violence against women, welfare cuts to women.

What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to limit access to contraception and legal abortion, they are relegating women to another century, a time when men ruled exclusively and women were considered property and had to be guided by a firm masculine hand.

We stand with women by fighting for economic security, protecting access to health care and supporting women's leadership across the country

Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control.

President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.

The Republican Party needs to, first of all, quit electing people in primaries that have prehistoric notions about women's issues.

And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.

The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony war. Michele Bachmann and Fox News would have us believe that the whole thing is 'political fiction.'

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

Twenty years later, twenty years after I joined the women's movement, we're still talking about the same issues. We're still talking about reproductive rights for women, and we're still talking about getting equal pay for women. And that's just frustrating.

It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what health plan they have or where they work - as Congress intended. Providing access to birth control just makes good sense.

Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain's policies are a disaster... He is anti- every reproductive issue we've ever fought for.

I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.

Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

When the health of a woman is involved I think the government has to be respectful.

Feminism is being able to have the choice - the choice to be a CEO, to be an executive, to be a journalist, to be a congresswoman, to be a mother, a stay-at-home mother, to be a wife.

I'm uncomfortable with men making decisions that affect women's health.

I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.

As president, I won't just continue to defend women's civil rights from political attacks - I'll make guaranteeing those rights a priority.

We all have to stand up and fight alongside American women to make sure that they have the freedom to control their own futures.

'Whole Women's Health' made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

When we talk about women's economic empowerment, we should be careful that we're not just giving women more to do.