No woman should ever have to choose between maintaining a healthy pregnancy and a paycheck.
Interpretation
Women shouldn't have to sacrifice their health or pregnancy for financial stability.
This quote speaks to the dilemma many women face when they must balance their health during pregnancy with job security. It highlights the need for societal and workplace changes that would allow women to prioritize their health without the fear of financial repercussions.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech advocating for maternity leave policies.
I work tirelessly advocating for gun violence prevention and promoting common-sense gun laws that could spare other parents the pain of having their child taken by senseless gun violence - laws the NRA's leadership has fought against relentlessly.
Whether it's racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, xenophobia, religious intolerance or other bias - we demand to live in a country where we can be safe to be who we are, believe what we want and love whomever we want.
Background checks will never stop every criminal from getting their hands on a gun and every single act of gun violence - but the evidence is clear that it's the single most effective policy to help keep guns out of dangerous hands and save lives.
It may be most difficult to empathize with those we are closest to.
To mind being disliked by a woman you donβt desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all.
The power of affinity lies in its mystery: the way it stands outside everything logical; you step into a crowded room and see a stranger, and somehow you feel you know her better than you know the friends you came with.
Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.
That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored.
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