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

On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

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

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

Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism.

Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.

A woman’s duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes… to speak and act in defiance of convention.