3 December 2020 Martha Plimpton It’s long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.
3 December 2020 Martha Plimpton That’s the thing about interviews, at some point you’re going to change your mind. But it’s there forever and you can’t escape it.
3 December 2020 Martha Plimpton My mom just didn’t put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Martha Plimpton It’s long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women’s health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.
3 December 2020 Martha Plimpton It’s easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn’t have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.
3 December 2020 Martha Plimpton It’s not common for a woman on television, especially if she’s the mom of the family, to be funny. She’s usually a straight man or foil.
3 December 2020 Martha Plimpton Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.
3 December 2020 Martha Plimpton I’m so sick of hearing how there’s no strong roles for women. I don’t care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there’s some depth there.
3 December 2020 Martha Plimpton At this point, I don’t get hired a lot because people don’t think I could finance a movie.
3 December 2020 Martha Plimpton The word ‘equality’ shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it’s not the American way.
