Nancy Keenan Quotes

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

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

There has never been more at stake for women's health and rights.

People ask me a lot, 'Well, can you be pro-life and be feminist? Can you be conservative and be feminist?' And I think that, yeah, maybe personally you can be those things. But I think if you're advocating for legislation, or if you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

I'm 100 percent in support of women's rights, the right of a woman to make her own choice.

A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.

Yes, I'm a suffragist.

Women have a choice where we have a president who has our back or one who turns his back.

If we should see ladies attending conventions, traveling about the country in great carts drawn by many yoke of oxen, waving their pocket handkerchiefs to assembled multitudes, it would greatly shock our sensibilities.

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The women's movement was just coming into being, and I got involved with Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug and all these great women. We then got involved with Carter, who was running for president, and we created the first International Women's Conference or the National Women's Conference for Carter.

I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do. But it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.

We need a woman in the White House right now. I really think that women want to work together.

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 strongly feel about women's rights because I have been working for menstrual hygiene across India.

Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.

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.

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.

We need to respect choices that women make.

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.