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Cecile Richards is an influential activist, born in 1958. She is known for her leadership in the areas of women's rights, health, and reproductive rights.

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“Don't sit around and wait for the perfect opportunity to come along —find something and make it an opportunity.”

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Book:Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

Source: Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

“With his face all scrunched up and twisted with anger, he looked just like Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter. Sometimes when someone is making an idiot of themselves, especially on live television, it’s just better to let them go ahead.”

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Book:Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

Source: Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

“You don’t have to be a professional troublemaker to take a stand...”

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Book:Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

Source: Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

“The day Speaker of the House Paul Ryan announced that he was going to do everything he could to repeal the Affordable Care Act and defund Planned Parenthood, [...] we saw a 900% increase in requests for appointments to get IUDs, a form of birth control that lasts for several years. Women wanted to make sure their birth control would outlast the [new] Administration.”

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Book:Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

Source: Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

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

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

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

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

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“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'.”

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“I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care.”

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“We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.”

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“At Planned Parenthood, we see the impact of abortion stigma firsthand, in the women who delay getting reproductive health care because they fear they’ll be labeled and judged. We see the effect of stigma on doctors, health center staffers, and others who help provide abortion services. And we see the impact in laws that regulate and restrict abortion in ways that would never happen with any other medical procedure.”

“The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.”

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“No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...”

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“I'm just so amazed by people who are willing to share things that, in the past, no one would have ever talked about. Folks in popular culture being willing to take on issues, I think that is such a key part of having a culture shift and an institutional shift.”

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“I think young people are recognizing the power of institutions, and we have to really dismantle a lot of the stigma and shame, culturally, but we also have to change things in terms of how government and institutions deal with this.”

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“I think we're all fighting for the day in which partisan politics is no longer something that is used to attack women's access to health care.”

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“This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.”

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“It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court.”

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About the Author

Born: 1958
Known for: Activist
Quotes: 19

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