Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly). — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
... the ocean could not be swept back with a broom. The truth was out. It illuminated the world. Motherhood no longer… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.” — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer,… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives,… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity,… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions…… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
Through sex, mankind may attain the great spiritual illumination which will transform the world, which will light up the only path to earthly paradise. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share
