Faye Wattleton Quotes

Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can’t take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can’t take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right.

~ Faye Wattleton

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

~ Faye Wattleton

I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.

~ Faye Wattleton

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

~ Faye Wattleton

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

~ Faye Wattleton

This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.

~ Faye Wattleton