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The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize that the question of choice is to be answered, not by the state, but by the individual.

— Dick Gephardt

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

People still create limitations and laws for women. But every woman deserves to choose her own path.

— Divyanka Tripathi

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

— Bob Marley

I think that a woman's right to choose should be protected. I think it should be protected from physical conduct that prevents that right to choose from being freely exercised.

— Janet Reno

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way.

— Marsha Sinetar

A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

— Sol Wachtler

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

— Alice Walker

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

— Mary Wollstonecraft

✗Opposing Perspectives

The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That is the law of the Creator.

— Joseph P. Bradley