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Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead QUOTES

Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead QUOTES

1 " Don't sit around and wait for the perfect opportunity to come along —find something and make it an opportunity. "

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2 " The day Speaker of the House Paul Ryan announced that he was going to do everything he could to repeal the Affordable Care Act and defund Planned Parenthood, [...] we saw a 900% increase in requests for appointments to get IUDs, a form of birth control that lasts for several years. Women wanted to make sure their birth control would outlast the [new] Administration. "

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3 " With his face all scrunched up and twisted with anger, he looked just like Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter. Sometimes when someone is making an idiot of themselves, especially on live television, it’s just better to let them go ahead. "

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4 " I don't know what my future holds, but I do know I've been fortunate enough to be a troublemaker my whole life. "

― Cecile Richards, , Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

5 " Feminist is not a passive label; it means speaking out and standing up for women everywhere, and also for yourself. One woman calling out an injustice is powerful enough; when we raise our voices together, we can shake the status quo to its foundation. "

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6 " If you’re not scaring yourself, you’re probably not doing enough. "

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7 " Sometimes being a troublemaker can be pretty damn awesome. After all, it was one of the great troublemakers of all time, Emma Goldman, who said, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution. "

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8 " Walking into the hearing room, I checked my phone one last time. I had an incoming text from my friend Terry McGovern, who works in global and maternal health. Her message read, “Just remember to carry the rage of women through the centuries with you this morning! "

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9 " Here’s the headline: In the first year alone, women saved $ 1.4 billion on birth control pills. Today we’re at a thirty-year low for unintended pregnancy, a historic low in teen pregnancy, and the lowest abortion rate since Roe v. Wade. These facts are too often overlooked, even though this is one of the biggest public health success stories of the last century. It didn’t happen on its own—it happened in large part due to better and more affordable access to birth control. "

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10 " This is your life. It is the only one you get, so no excuses and no do-overs. If you make a mistake or fail at something, you learn from it, you get over it, and you move on. Your job is to be the very best person you can be, and to never settle for anything less. "

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11 " The Low Road,” by Marge Piercy. Part of it goes like this: It starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more. "

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12 " Once you start questioning authority, it’s hard to stop. "

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13 " Focus on the people who are counting on you, not the ones who are trying to drag you down. "

― , Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

14 " Edna St. Vincent Millay, who said, “It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it’s one damn thing over and over. "

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15 " This is it—your only life—so whatever the question, the answer is yes. Don’t look back. Don’t hesitate. "

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16 " Don’t sit around and wait for the perfect opportunity to come along—find something and make it an opportunity. "

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17 " Back when Mom was starting to get into politics, she often reminded me, “People don’t do things for your reasons—they do things for their reasons. "

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18 " Children learn not from what you tell them, but from what they see you do, how you spend your days and what you do with your life. "

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19 " We saw a 900 percent increase in requests for appointments to get IUDs, a form of birth control that lasts for several years; women wanted to make sure their birth control would outlast the Trump administration. "

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20 " I learned a very tough lesson that my dad had admonished me about before: Never go out on strike unless you have a plan to get back in. "

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