55 Quotes by Cecile Richards

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

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

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

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.

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.'

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

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.

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

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.'