#w

It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#access #availability #been #benefits #children

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#especially #family #foil #funny #man

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. ↗

— Plutarch

#also #deeds #great #greatly #must

It's not so weird that four generations are living together under the same roof and trying to make it work. It's how a lot of people in this country are living right now. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#four #generations #how #living #lot

My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#adjust #ahead #anything #chill #country

My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#been #call #came #downtown #guess

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#change #escape #forever #going #interviews

The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#anything #bank #bank robbery #class #class distinctions

There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#infinite #infinite number #moved #number #theater

There are so many brilliant women on television right now. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#many #now #right #television #women