Being able to control your reproduction is essential to women's ability to flourish in the United States.
Interpretation
The ability to control reproduction is crucial for women's empowerment and success.
This quote emphasizes the fundamental importance of reproductive rights for women in the United States, suggesting that without the autonomy to make personal decisions regarding reproduction, women cannot fully aspire to achieve their potential in various facets of life, including personal, professional, and societal roles. It underscores that reproductive control is not just a matter of personal health but a key aspect of women's liberation and equality.
In practice
During a women's rights rally, this quote may be used to highlight the importance of reproductive rights.
There is a kind of woman who is economically powerful, professionally powerful, who threatens a white male grip on power that has a long historic precedent in the country. Independent women living outside of marriage threaten all kinds of things about the way power is supposed to work.
There are all kinds of ways in which women, together, change the world. And I don't mean that in a cheesy way. I'm not somebody who believes all women should support each other. I believe very strongly in women critiquing each other, just not critiquing each other more intensely because they're women.
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Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'
Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a novel. It's just a book.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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