Accounts Quote by Max Perutz

The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.

— Doris Lessing

Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies.

— Roxane Gay

Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through…

— Emily James Smith Putnam

When you free women so they can choose to have or not to have, or to conceive - that's something that, for millennia, women…

— Lynne Tillman

The pill was the liberation of the spirit of women.

— Sonia Rykiel

If Men Got Pregnant: Natural childbirth would become obsolete

— Nikhil Saluja

Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

— Camille Paglia

Contraception doesn't define a woman.

— Nikki Haley

“And as regards contraceptives, there is a paradoxical, negative sense in which all possible future generations are the patients or subjects of a power…

— C.S. Lewis

In part I'm just mystified. Here's a woman, Hillary [Clinton], who wrote a book about it takes a "village" to raise children. It wasn't…

— Peter Breggin

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one…

— Gloria Steinem

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

— Sally Ride