quotes related to reproductive health

"For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women."
-- Elizabeth Blackwell (The first woman in the U.S. to become a physician)

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
-- Virginia Woolf

"The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come."
-- Sandra Day O'Connor

"When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?"
-- Isabel Allende

"Women have to join their voices with those of others to define what kind of society they want to live in here in the U.S. and with our sisters around the globe."
-- Prema Mathai-Davis

"In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one."
-- Mother Teresa

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever does."
-- Margaret Mead

"I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize speech

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-- Mahatma Gandhi

"In the quiet of American conscience, we know that deep, persistent poverty is unworthy of our nation's promise. And whatever our views of its causes, we can agree that children at risk are not at fault. Where there is suffering, there is duty."
-- George W. Bush, Inauguration Address

"As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich...As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than twenty-eight or thirty years, I can never be totally healthy... I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can boast of being independent. We are interdependent. "
-- Unknown

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
-- John F. Kennedy

"If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace ... you are among the top 8 percent of the world's wealthy. If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation... you are ahead of 500 million people in the world."
-- Unknown

"The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world."
-- Blaine Lee