Quotes About Advocacy

Women are the last group anyone cares about in Hollywood.

I don't think that an emphasis on the peculiar plight of black males at all suggests that others are not suffering, or that such attention suggests that black men and women feel sorry for themselves.

I couldn't bare the idea of not being in regular communication with the audience I love - young women of color.

The Republican Party is extremely pro-women.

I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.

We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.

There is no question that women helping women works for women.

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

I'm still trying to do films about black women.

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.

I always advocate to young women that if we don't do this for ourselves, no one else is going to. We have to have a voice.

Unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.

If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.

I would [call myself a feminist], yes, I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still.

I once took on the role of the Batman for a commercial about equal pay for women.

Like my sister, 981 women die every day on Earth from pregnancy and birth-related complications.

Why are women still this underclass? If we all banded together...

I write for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and heard and all too often aren't.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Women should do a lot more fighting. I don't think it's fair that we can't get into a good fight.

There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.

I am passionate about young women and advocating for them.