Larry Wilmore Quotes

Are we asking terribly much of people to be curious and interested in the female experience from the female perspective?

When I tell a foreign audience that 90 per cent of Indian women have no access to sanitary napkin, there is a visible disbelief. But there is hardly a ripple when I say the same thing to an Indian crowd.

It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet.

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

Every father, brother, and husband should know about menstruation. It is not just about women; it is about men, too.

There's such a stigma around girls' periods, and women's sexuality - girls can't speak out for themselves or be who they want to be. I think that coming from the social platform that I have, I try to be a positive influence, and this was something that I felt needed to be seen and heard.

It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly.

Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities.

President Obama understands women. He trusts women. And on every issue that matters to us, he stands with women.

I think I've really learned how important it is to empower women.

There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.

Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

Restricting access to such a basic health care service, which 99% of sexually experienced American women have used and 62% of American women are using right now, is out of touch with public sentiment.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

I focus on a lot of women's issues.

And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.

I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.

Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.

My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.

I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

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

… the lack of access to basic family planning services and information undermines a woman’s ability to determine her own destiny. It also increases illness and mortality rates of women and their children, and inhibits the ability of families to climb out of poverty.

… the right to an abortion is society’s down payment on all the rights we [women] are yet due.

I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.