Amber Heard hasn't fulfilled her pledge to donate $3.5 million to the American Civil Liberties Union. She hasn't made a payment since December 2018, ACLU Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel Terence Dougherty said in recorded video testimony.
In a tweet
28 years ago, I wrote the Violence Against Women Act to provide more protection against domestic violence, stalking, and sexual assault, and to support survivors. It has saved lives — and helped women rebuild their lives. Today, with this bill, we reauthorize and strengthen it.
In a tweet
Across the country, women’s rights are under attack. I have long used fashion as a force 4 change. As the Met Costume Institute reopens w/ their inaugural exhibit celebrating American designers, I am calling 4 the certification of the ERA so women can be equal once and for all.
At the 2nd International Conference on Action with Women and Peace in Seoul
The truth is, a woman’s life does not rank equally with a man’s, far more universally than we are willing to admit, Conflict-related sexual violence is a manifestation of this reality.
In a tweet
I'm honored to announce my role as an @ACLU ambassador on women's rights. The ACLU is the organization that first inspired me to become an activist, so I couldn't be more excited about our work to make sure women and girls can live free from violence and discrimination. Join us.
In an opinion piece on the Washington Post, published online
I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change.
Ashley Judd was at the Women’s March on Washington and recited a poem called “Nasty Woman,” that heavily criticizes Donald Trump.
On her Instagram, joining anti-Trump Women’s March
I love women. I live for my two daughters. And I am full of pride and unity with all women today.
In a tweet, at the Women's March Protest
Couldn't be more proud....I am here, we are here!!! #WomensMarch
In her speech at the Women’s March in Washington
It’s been a heartrending time to be both a woman and an immigrant in this country. Our dignity, our character, our rights have all been under attack, and a platform of hate and division assumed power yesterday. But the president is not America. His cabinet is not America. Congress is not America. We are America. And we are here to stay.
At the Billboard Women in Music Awards
If you’re a girl, you have to play the game. You’re allowed to be pretty and cute and sexy. But don’t act too smart. Don’t have an opinion that’s out of line with the status quo. You are allowed to be objectified by men and dress like a slut, but don’t own your sluttiness.
In a Domestic Abuse PSA
I have an unique opportunity to remind other women this doesn't have to be the way it is, you don't have to do it alone, you're not alone, and we can change this.
According to the ACLU: "In 2016, Ms. Heard pledged to donate $3.5 million over 10 years to the ACLU. Two years later, in 2018, the ACLU invited Ms. Heard to become an ambassador and to work with us on an op-ed to bring attention to the issue of sexual assault and domestic violence issues; she agreed. Through her ambassadorship, Ms. Heard supported our advocacy for gender justice issues, a cause that has long been central to our mission at least since Ruth Bader Ginsburg headed the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project.
In the book "The Second Sex"
To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognizing each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other. The reciprocity of their relations will not do away with the miracles – desire, possession, love, dream, adventure – worked by the division of human beings into two separate categories; and the words that move us – giving, conquering, uniting – will not lose their meaning.