I will defend Planned Parenthood. I will defend Roe v. Wade, and I will defend women's rights to make their own health care decisions.

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

I believe abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. I do think women should have a choice but also that women should be making responsible decisions.

In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that must change.

I wish we weren't fighting all the time to protect women's rights, to protect women's health.

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls.

Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government