We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerou…

- Mary Calderone

We're still a sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons.

- Mary Calderone

Abortion is the taking of a life.

- Mary Calderone

Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

- Mary Calderone

I don't want to control anybody's mind or anybody's heart -- I just want to help free people from the concert of sex as evil instead of a gift from G…

- Mary Calderone

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

- Mary Calderone

Our children are not going to be just "our children"

- Mary Calderone