Ability Quote by Rebecca Traister

We must . . . guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions.

— Henry W. Kendall

For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I mean whether…

— Gloria Steinem

At the constitutional level, what we of course have assured is that women have the ability to make these reproductive decisions up to the…

— Barack Obama

“The fact of women’s separate biological capacities has been used as a pretext for excluding women from the centres of power. But even as…

— Gabrielle Palmer

It's important for women to be financially independent and in control of their lives.

— Simi Garewal

In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.

— Jean Paul Gaultier

I believe it is crucial to consider the degree to which one woman's possession of reproductive choice may actually depend on or deepen another…

— Rickie Solinger

“Fertility is seen as a female ‘problem’; whether discouraged or enforced by the vagaries of political, demographic and cultural decisions, it must be kept…

— Gabrielle Palmer

Women well understood how to restrict birth through timing of sexual intercourse, herbs and abortifacients. I suspect the focus on men's control of women…

— Gloria Steinem

The choices that women make have huge impact on families, on communities and on nations. Being able to provide an enabling environment for them…

— Babatunde Osotimehin

Within the stable economy it's necessary to eliminate all forms of sexual discrimination, and to provide women for the first time in our history…

— Jimmy Carter

Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human load on…

— Gloria Steinem