Women's Health Quotes

• A woman's health is her capital.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Fitness Motivational, Women's Health, Literature

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1868). “The Chimney-corner”, p.126

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• 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.

  Maya Angelou

  Women's Health, Fool, Sides

  "Health & Happiness Heroes: Dr. Maya Angelou on Confidence, Tomato Soup & The Amazing Thing on Her Bucket List". Interview With Sarah Jio, www.glamour.com. May 17, 2012.

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• Women's health needs to be front and center - it often isn't, but it needs to be.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Needs, Women's Health, Fronts

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• It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.

  Martha Plimpton

  Past, Long, Political

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

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Priorities, Women's Health, Highest

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• I wish we weren`t fighting all the time to protect women`s rights, to protect women`s health.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, Rights, Wish

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Women's Health, Stakes

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• Our Bodies, Ourselves is the bible for women's health--It has served as a way for women, across ethnic, racial, religious, and geographical boundaries, to start examining their health from a perspective that will bring about change.

  Byllye Avery

  Religious, Perspective, Women's Health

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• I would be the best for women, the best for women's health issues.

  Donald Trump

  Issues, Would Be, Women's Health

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.

  Erica Jong

  Depressing, Fighting, Winning

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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• We can reorient science - for example, a kind of medicine much more directed toward the enormous number of women's health problems which are neglected now. But the original givens of this science are the same for men and for women. Women simply have to steal the instrument; they don't have to break it, or try, a priori, to make of it something totally different. Steal it and use it for their own good.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Medicine, Numbers

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.

  Linda Lingle

  Pain, Party, Choices

  "Democrats and Republicans Walk Fine Line in Senate Races" by Elizabeth Hartfield, abcnews.go.com. May 19, 2012.

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• As a physician who knows the importance of body image to our overall health, I wanted to have a way to inspire women to love their bodies no matter what size or shape they are. This is possible!!! And I know EXACTLY how to do this because I've done it myself and I've helped thousands of others to do the same thing. It's women's health at its most fundamental level!

  Christiane Northrup

  Inspire, Physicians, Women's Health

  Source: www.drfranklipman.com

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• Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Names, Iron

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• I think we're at a place wherea woman's health is danger because of whether this family planning or contraception or any issues that relate to women's health, there's an assault on that in the Congress.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Issues, Women's Health

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• 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.

  Cybill Shepherd

  Would Be, Women's Health, Fields

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• The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Travel, Thinking, Ideas

  "Cynthia Nixon: Abortion debate's new voice". Interview with Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. December 21, 2009.

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• Women well understood how to restrict birth through timing of sexual intercourse, herbs and abortifacients. I suspect the focus on men's control of women as the means of reproduction came later, in the last five percent or so of human history, with the idea of children as property and labor. One needed to have as many as possible, never mind about women's health or mobility or brainpower. Women's freedom was restricted in order to make sure of the paternity and ownership of children.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Mean, Men

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• Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, 'take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.' It was done on ten thousand male medical students.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Heart, Doctors, Males

  Source: digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu

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• Of course, we're so lucky to be in a time where that's not our reality anymore. I just thought it was very interesting to go back to that time now, and to look at all of these issues that are still relevant today, but just in such a different way, and to see how we approach them and try to overcome them. Yeah, we've come a long way with medicine and women's health in the Western world, but in a lot of parts of the rest of the world, that's still a huge issue.

  Eve Hewson

  Reality, Medicine, Issues

  Source: collider.com

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• Although a government study found that men's health was much worse than women's health or the health of any minority group, headlines around the country read: 'Minorities Face Large Health Care Gap.' They did not say: 'Men Face Large Health Care Gap.' Why? Because we associate the sacrifice of men's lives with the saving of the rest of us, and this association leads us to carry in our unconscious an incentive not to care about men living longer.

  Warren Farrell

  Country, Sacrifice, Men

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• There are wonderful things having to do with women's health. But not when it comes to abortion.

  Donald Trump

  Abortion, Women's Health, Wonderful

  The CBS News Republican debate transcript, www.washingtonpost.com. February 13, 2016.

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• When President Obama passed health care reform, it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he would repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of a woman's health, that's personal too.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Obamacare, President, Reform

  Remarks by Debbie Wasserman Schultz at the Demcoratic National Convention, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• If more men would see a story of what it was like to be pregnant, and how it felt to be in a place where you had to make a decision about whether to keep a pregnancy, maybe they would feel differently about women's health care.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Pregnancy, Men, Decision

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

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• I will help women, because we have the women's health problems. We have a lot of problems.

  Donald Trump

  Women's Health, Helping, Problem

  "Donald Trump’s interview with Bill O’Reilly was an instant classic". www.washingtonpost.com. September 20, 2016.

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