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. – Martha Plimpton
At this point, I don’t get hired a lot because people don’t think I could finance a movie. – Martha Plimpton
I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it’s meant to come. – Martha Plimpton
Things come to you in life when you’re prepared for them, when you’re ready for them. – Martha Plimpton
Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care. – Martha Plimpton
I’m hoping maybe people like working with me because I like what I do for a living and I want to have a good time. – 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. – Martha Plimpton
I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate. – Martha Plimpton
The word ‘equality’ shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it’s not the American way. – Martha Plimpton
I’d just like to see a role for women where someone who isn’t traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. ‘Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?’ – 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. – Martha Plimpton
The ’80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness – a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives. – Martha Plimpton
