My mother taught me a lot of ...

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
 Faye Wattleton

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If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.
 Faye Wattleton
I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is not killing is a signal of our ambivalence, a signal that we cannot say yes, it kills a fetus.
 Faye Wattleton
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
We've consistently seen, since the late 1990s, that more than half of women believe that abortion should be severely restricted or abolished altogether.
 Faye Wattleton
My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.
 Faye Wattleton