Cecile Richards Quotes

Thanks to President Obama, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition!

Dealing with men in Congress – for the most part, it’s pretty dispiriting in terms of the lack of regard they have for women. And they’re not even… it’s like they don’t know what they don’t know, and they don’t even care what they don’t know.

No parent wants their child to get an infection or get pregnant before they’re ready.

It is not up to women of color to save this country from itself. That’s on all of us. That’s on all of us.

You can go a lot of places or make a lot of money, but there’s nothing quite like having a job where people actually say to you, ‘Thanks for making my life better.’

The women who walk into Planned Parenthood clinics come from every background, every political persuasion.

All across the country, the Women’s March inspired doctors and teachers and mothers to become activists and organizers and, yes, candidates for office.

And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.

If you look at the workforce and the way our laws work around so many issues, it’s as if women are supposed to retrofit themselves into a workplace that was never created for them.

My dad was a civil rights lawyer, and he was actually defending conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War.

For women, access to reproductive health care isn’t a political issue.

Even though my mom was talented and had a college degree, she lived in the era when the conventional wisdom in Dallas was that my dad worked, she was supposed to stay home and take care of the kids, and that was that. There really weren’t other opportunities for her, and most of them were volunteer opportunities.

I’m grateful to women who have the privilege and ability to tell their stories and applaud them for doing that. And also recognize that there are many, many women in this country who will never have that opportunity.

Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.

I would be excited if we could reimagine workplaces that start from a premise that women are going to be a central part: Women are going to bear children, people are going to raise those children, and it’s not going to be a nuisance – it’s actually going to be understood as part of the deal.

So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It’s like we woke up in a bad episode of ‘Mad Men.’

The good news is when we are in full-on sisterhood, women are the most powerful, political force in America.

I’m not a fashion person. I basically like to wear navy blue, and I don’t need a lot of extras.

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