First Hand History

"People... want to be involved in... the destruction of the mental health stigma."

"Life is very fragile and every day is really special"

"When I look back on it, I don´t look at it with sadness. I look back on tuberculosis as a learning experience. I wouldn't be who I was now if I was never diagnosed."

"Sometimes people think that doctors only look like old, white-bearded men and this obviously isn't the case anymore."

"Cecile Richards, the current president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, founded TFN in 1995 because she noticed this rise of ultra-right conservatism in Texas, and she knew that, in order to combat it, there needed to be an organization solely dedicated to being a watchdog of the religious right here."

"We are still at the point where there is not a lot of representation for women in government and political leadership, so once we kinda get that it might get better."

"A lot of patients, when they would be confronted by having to sign this consent about having their fetal tissue buried, it really upsets most of them. "

"There were two large towers or buildings. And all of the black patients were taken care of in one of the buildings, and all of the white patients were taken care of in one of the other buildings."

"It wasn't every girl that got encouraged to not be a housewife. I was the first woman from my village to leave the village and get a medical degree."

"It's pro quality of life."