Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Byllye Avery

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Byllye Yvonne Avery is an American health care activist. A proponent of reproductive justice, Avery has worked to develop healthcare services and education that address black women's mental and physical health stressors. She is best known as the founder of the National Black Women's Health Project, the first national organization to specialize in Black women's reproductive health issues. For her work with the NBWHP, she has received the MacArthur Foundation's Fellowship for Social Contribution and the Gustav O. Lienhard Award for the Advancement of Health Care from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, among other awards.

American - Leader | Born: October 20, 1937

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The gift of water, air, soap, and time allows us to heal and relieve our psyche and soul.

Byllye Avery

Change provides us with experiences that we convert to personal power.

Byllye Avery

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice, it's an investment.

Byllye Avery

Our Bodies, Ourselves is the bible for women's health--It has served as a way for women, across ethnic, racial, religious, and geographical boundaries, to start examining their health from a perspective that will bring about change.

Byllye Avery

It is always wise to remember that others will survive even if we are not there taking care of them. I found out that I feel so much better when I take an hour a day, just to take care of me and love myself. It keeps me from feeling so put upon by everything and everybody and helps me get through the day. By taking my hour early in the morning, I feel like I get my love first and I get it when I am at my best.

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Purple puts us in touch with the part of ourselves that is regal. Purple is the queen in all women; it helps us keep our backs straight and heads held high.

Byllye Avery

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Byllye Avery

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