The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

As often as I have witnessed the miracle [birth], held the perfect creature with its tiny hands and feet, each time I have felt as though I were entering a cathedral with prayer in my heart.

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

No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit.

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.

She 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.