Women Quotes by Margaret Sanger

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

— Margaret Sanger

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

Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives,…

— Margaret Sanger

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

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

Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.

— Margaret Sanger

No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

— Margaret Sanger

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

The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.

— Margaret Sanger

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

“No gods, no masters. ”

— Margaret Sanger

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

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

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

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