No woman should ever have to choose between maintaining a healthy pregnancy and a paycheck.
Interpretation
Women shouldn't have to sacrifice their health or pregnancy for financial stability.
This quote speaks to the dilemma many women face when they must balance their health during pregnancy with job security. It highlights the need for societal and workplace changes that would allow women to prioritize their health without the fear of financial repercussions.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech advocating for maternity leave policies.
I work tirelessly advocating for gun violence prevention and promoting common-sense gun laws that could spare other parents the pain of having their child taken by senseless gun violence - laws the NRA's leadership has fought against relentlessly.
Whether it's racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, xenophobia, religious intolerance or other bias - we demand to live in a country where we can be safe to be who we are, believe what we want and love whomever we want.
Background checks will never stop every criminal from getting their hands on a gun and every single act of gun violence - but the evidence is clear that it's the single most effective policy to help keep guns out of dangerous hands and save lives.
this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.
Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.
Look around. And don't get close to people who make you suffer.
If we don't know how to be alone, we'll only know how to be lonely.
As I got older, I realised that people saw me as other things - sometimes Korean, sometimes Japanese, sometimes just Asian. When my family moved to a more affluent white neighbourhood, I started to see myself as 'other', this amorphous category. I didn't even know what 'not other' was, but I knew I wasn't it; I wasn't what was normal.
There have been articles saying that all women need to read my book. I ask, why not all men? In fact, that would be even more valuable because we women want to sit down with men and tell them - this is how we feel, this is what we go through.
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