Sandra Fluke Quotes

#1. I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.

Nancy Keenan

#2. Obama wanted to offer his support to birth control activist Sandra Fluke. He wanted to express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate personal attacks and thank her for exercising her rights as a citizen to speak out on an issue of public policy.

Jay Carney

#3. Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us,

Sandra Fluke

#4. But finding these 16 warheads just raises a basic question: Where are the other 29,984? Because that is how many empty chemical warheads the U.N. Special Commission estimated he had - and he has never accounted for.

Richard Armitage

#5. It surprises me how much children like me, you know? If they look at me as an example, I have a big responsibility.

Mario Balotelli

#6. There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.

Sandra Fluke

#7. I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy.

Sandra Fluke

#8. In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.

Sandra Fluke

#9. Restricting access to such a basic health care service, which 99% of sexually experienced American women have used and 62% of American women are using right now, is out of touch with public sentiment.

Sandra Fluke

#10. I just can't imagine that people would stand for it. People are wanting to potentially elect someone who will get our troops out, so at this stage, if the draft was reinstated, I just think that people would have none of it.

Elijah Wood

#11. You have to change your life if you're not happy, and wake up if things aren't going the way you want.

Keanu Reeves

#12. Getting into television was a total fluke.

Sandra Bullock

#13. Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care.

Sandra Fluke

#14. The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.'

Sandra Oh

#15. Malraux says art is our rebellion against man's fate.
La condition humaine is what I have never accepted. That is why I tried to create my own world.

Anais Nin

#16. Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school,

Sandra Fluke

#17. If we only thought of our feet as we walk, we'd miss everything else.

Richard Schmid

#18. Broadly Americans agree that women need access to health care to prevent medical disasters and to prevent pregnancy.

Sandra Fluke

#19. We have more than enough people to remind us of that, to give us dispassionate evaluations of our mediocrity.

Wendy Walker

#20. It's unfortunate that there's such a disconnect between what's happening on our legislatures and what the public knows about, the consequences what that means for ourselves, our mothers and our wives.

Sandra Fluke

#21. I have received so many messages of support from across the country - women and men speaking out because they agree that contraception needs to be treated as a basic health care service.

Sandra Fluke

#22. I am proud to stand with the millions of women and men who recognize that our government should legislate according to the reality of our lives - not for ideology.

Sandra Fluke

#23. Because they were young. Because one is young only once in a life lived only once. Because recklessness is the only fist to throw at nothingness. How much aliveness can one bear?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#24. Women and people of color and young people especially are about to have this amazing opportunity to shift the political conversation in this country for the good of all of us, toward more progressive policies, and it's a really amazing and important time to be part of that.

Sandra Fluke

#25. We talk often about choice. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to choose.

Sandra Fluke

#26. If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.

Jeanette Winterson

#27. Thanks to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, preventive care services, including contraception, will be covered by private insurance plans without co-pays or deductibles.

Sandra Fluke