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

She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.

I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine.

No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources.

No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.