37 Quotes by Faye Wattleton

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

In my mind, the core issue has always been prevention. My views were shaped by my experiences with women who were managing and coping with unintended pregnancies and unwanted children.

Just saying no prevents teenage pregnancy the way 'Have a nice day' cures chronic depression.

Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

We've consistently seen, since the late 1990s, that more than half of women believe that abortion should be severely restricted or abolished altogether.

If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.

I have never believed in the impossible.

American teens have the worst of all worlds ... Our children are bombarded and confronted with sexual messages, sexual exploitation, and all manner of sexual criticism. But our society is by and large sexually illiterate.