Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women) - Presidents, Supreme Court justices, legislators, lobbyists - but freedoms won, as freedom always is, by people struggling on their own behalf.
Katha PollittIf you run into trouble doing what's expected, people sympathize with you, while if you try something else and flop everyone says, You see?
Katha PollittOne of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.
Katha Pollitt