Its long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of womens health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control. – Martha Plimpton
I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience. – Martha Plimpton
Im so sick of hearing how theres no strong roles for women. I dont care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as theres some depth there. – Martha Plimpton
Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care. – Martha Plimpton
As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958