Occupation: Activist Birth: September 14, 1879 Death: September 6, 1966
A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part ….
As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern l….
Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is….
More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control..
It is a noteworthy fact that not one of the women to whom I have spoken so far believes in abortion as a practice; but it is principle for which they….
We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees..
I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan..
The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics..
Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program..
No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit..
The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it..
Birth Control which has been criticized as negative and destructive, is really the greatest and most truly eugenic method, and its adoption as part o….
I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception. They have every right to know about their own bodies. I would strikeout--I would scream….
Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleane….
I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance to be a human bei….
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race..
By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epile….
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivit….
To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization. g. to apportion farm lands and homesteads for these s….
Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding th….
Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importanc….