#women

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

— Gwen Moore

#frightening #lack #mores #old #own

It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what health plan they have or where they work - as Congress intended. Providing access to birth control just makes good sense. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#available #benefit #birth #birth control #congress

It is important for women to have a choice, to have an opportunity to plan their families, because if they don't, the Republicans have said this is an ownership society. You are on your own, and they're going to begrudge that child everything, from WIC to a Pell Grant to health insurance. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#child #choice #everything #families #going

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#act #against #been #dent #go

The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#been #congress #elected #ever #institution

Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well... not just rich people or poor people. It knows no gender, it knows no ethnicity, it knows nothing. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#country #democrats #ethnicity #gender #just

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#american #apple #apple pie #experience #i

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#except #had #i #movement #rights

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#far #how #how far #limit #revolution

I want to be surrounded by women, I want to be snuggled and cuddled and pampered. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#pampered #surrounded #want #women