Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.

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.

The first right of every child is to be wanted, to be desired, to be planned for with an intensity of love that gives it its title to being.

... the ocean could not be swept back with a broom. The truth was out. It illuminated the world. Motherhood no longer cringed before the relentless laws of fecundity.

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

Eugenics is ... the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.

Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.