Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.

Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions… Such human weeds clog up the path, drain up the energies and the resources of this little earth. We must clear the way for a better world; we must cultivate our garden.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

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

Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.

I wanted each woman to be a rebellious Vashti, not an Esther.