Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.
Margaret SangerShe goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.
Margaret SangerI cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine.
Margaret SangerLife has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we mustโif we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdomโwe must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith.
Margaret Sanger