Quotes About Awareness

You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.

I want to use my voice to better health care for pregnant women.

I feel like having children - and the illness I had when I was pregnant - is probably more important than anything else to the person I am now. I'm massively aware of how we can take everything for granted - how fragile life is.

The mom guilt is really something that not many moms talk about. You leave your house for an hour and you feel guilty about it. That's something I wasn't aware of before I was pregnant.

Cancer - there's no prejudice. There's no age limit. It can happen to anybody.

Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

It's interesting to take a look at people who deal with prejudice on a daily basis - it's been a real eye opener for me.

It's hard for men sometimes to talk about feminism, just as it's hard for people who aren't from ethnic minorities to talk about racial prejudice. It's a difficult conversation to have, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have it.

I think prejudice has gotten to a point where a lot of people hold biases in their mind and don't even realize that they're doing it, because it's deeply ingrained in the fabric of what it means to be an American.

I haven't experienced a lot of prejudice in my life, but I'm not naive to what goes on in the world.

I might have been lucky to grow up in the 90s, but I think, actually, we started getting complacent about prejudice. We thought we had killed prejudice, and if you were still talking about it you were just going on too much.

You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

I'm glad if people can listen to some music and maybe fix some prejudices of their own, just by thinking.

Everyone has an image of a premature child, but until you live it and experience it, you just don't know how bad it is.

Don't ask super goofy questions at the premiere of a very serious movie or try to have an in-depth political discussion at the opening of a new fashion boutique.

In The Saturdays we went to a premiere once and we wore these dresses and all I can describe them as is colourful bin bags with bows on. And I knew they were bad at the time and remember saying that I really didn't want to wear them but it was the only option we had. I still look back and I think, 'I knew it at the time.'

Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.

I try to not think too much about how stuff gets seen as it's being done by a woman. Because if you think about it, then you end up thinking about how you're acting, and if you are thinking about how you're acting, then you are preoccupied and you're going to end up being insincere. You're kind of not present.

I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.

The thing is, even though you think a lot about your movie, and there's a lot of preparation behind it, the final end result completely goes beyond it. It's not something you're aware of.

If you have a sense of your place in the world, that's the best preparation for anything.

Preparation is such a big thing and you should never take that for granted.