Quotes About Advocacy

As a mother and someone who has lost so many family members to cancer, it is important to me to bring awareness to such important causes.

To not see black or Latina women as famous in my industry is crazy! I have to talk about it.

I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.

I stand for body confidence and against fat shaming, but I will not support people who live on bad cholesterol.

Let's ensure our federal government works on behalf of all of its citizens - not just the ones with connections to people in power.

I see how attorneys are, and nobody is really on your side. It's about money. The attorney is not chasing after your money; he's chasing after his fee.

I feel like there should be someone to stick up for women and make them feel good and beautiful about themselves.

It was a feeling of loyalty to our own sex and an enthusiasm to have every degradation that was put upon our sex removed.

Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.

I was never the feisty kind of activist.

There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals.

I'd like to think of myself as somebody who has a voice for liberating female sexuality.

For me feminism is equality.

Really, feminism is just about equality, and that's all. It's just saying equal rights.

Feminism for me is the freedom to choose, to live the way a woman wants to and to make this world a better place.

I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.

People get really turned off by feminism.

Feminism isn't just for women. It's for men.

I think feminism is about the spirit.

Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.

There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on.

Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.

In truth, I don't care about making feminism more accessible to anyone.

When 1970s feminism hit the United States, women demanded the right to natural childbirth and to have their husband or another support person in the delivery room. My mother gave birth to me during this time.