Degree Lived Quotes by Cecile Richards

I worked with women who were nurses and workers, women who worked in hotels, janitors who basically cleaned buildings, worked two jobs just to…

— Cecile Richards

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

— Cecile Richards

If you look at the workforce and the way our laws work around so many issues, it's as if women are supposed to retrofit…

— Cecile Richards

My dad was a civil rights lawyer, and he was actually defending conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War.

— Cecile Richards

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

— Cecile Richards

Even though my mom was talented and had a college degree, she lived in the era when the conventional wisdom in Dallas was that…

— Cecile Richards

The women who walk into Planned Parenthood clinics come from every background, every political persuasion.

— Cecile Richards

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

— Cecile Richards

All my life, I've been lucky to work in social justice, starting as a labor organizer working with low-wage working women.

— Cecile Richards

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

— Cecile Richards

Dealing with men in Congress - for the most part, it's pretty dispiriting in terms of the lack of regard they have for women.…

— Cecile Richards

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…

— Cecile Richards