Nora Ephron Quotes

We need to respect choices that women make.

I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.

Any discussion involving the ownership of women's bodies is one to be had! We must manifest the right!

Women's rights was thought of as a Western concept. Now people do talk about women's rights - political parties talk about it, even religious parties talk about it.

I have a brain, I have a uterus, and they both work.

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.

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

I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.

I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

Contraception doesn't define a woman.

I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

It is very frightening to see a resurgence of the old mores, or lack thereof, regarding women's rights to their own bodies.

It was not seen that woman’s place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.

Abortion – Yes! But that is just the beginning…. My uterus is mine and it is up to me to look after it.

Abortion needs to be claimed as a positive, social good. It is an essential option for women—not just ones in dramatic, terrible, body-and-soul-destroying situations, but all women—and thus benefits society as a whole.

The silver lining of the Trump presidency is it is an era of activism, and one where women really want to be heard.

Here's what I see: a complacency among the generation of young women whose entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided.

Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy.

During the era when women were burning their bras - which, by the way, they never actually did - but when women were first becoming liberated, I was 23. And I met a woman who asked, 'Don't you feel bad because you're sort of acting like the stupid airhead blonde?' And I totally surprised myself. I said, 'Liberation can also come from the inside.'

I was there when they shut down the Pentagon; I've been going on protest marches my whole life... And now, this fight against controlling and policing women's bodies feels like a war.

By the time I got to college in the '90s, virtually every young woman I knew was on the pill. It was like a rite of passage, along with Doc Martens and Take Back the Night rallies.

I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say I'm for limited government, but I think the government should decide what women do with their bodies.

Young women who come to Rise every weekend range from ages 15-19 years if they're in school and 19-24 years if they're out of school. These empowered young women talk about protecting themselves, their friends and communities and how they can educate people to help break the stigma surrounding AIDS.

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.