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.

If we are really to live at all we must put our convictions into action.

I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception. They have every right to know about their own bodies. I would strikeout--I would scream from the housetops. I would tell the world what was going on in the lives of these poor women. I would be heard. No matter what it should cost. I would be heard.

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans.

The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order.

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