Aging & Wisdom Quote by Debbie Wasserman Schultz

The urgency is doing a lot of political work here. Wasserman Schultz doesn’t just urge women to care about their health; she insists the message can’t be repeated “ever” enough, a rhetorical drumbeat designed for a landscape where women’s health is perpetually up for debate, funding, and regulation. The repetition signals both crisis and frustration: the sense that even basic autonomy requires constant reassertion because the surrounding institutions won’t reliably protect it.

Her most strategic move is the blend of empowerment language with a carefully non-specific directive. “Take charge” and “do what’s right for her” sound like personal responsibility and self-determination, but they also sidestep naming the political fights underneath: contraception access, abortion rights, preventive care, insurance coverage, and the clinic infrastructure that makes “choice” real. That ambiguity is intentional. It broadens the coalition by letting listeners map the line onto their own beliefs while still implicitly defending a pro-choice, pro-access framework.

The phrase “especially every young woman” narrows the target to the group most often treated as both vulnerable and suspect in public discourse: young women who are lectured about consequences while being denied tools and information. The subtext is a rebuttal to paternalism. If lawmakers and cultural gatekeepers keep framing women’s health decisions as something to be supervised, she flips the frame: the only legitimate authority is the woman herself.

In context, this is not just advice; it’s a policy argument smuggled into a motivational slogan. It makes autonomy sound like common sense - and paints any interference as unreasonable.