Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

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

The first right of every child is to be wanted, to be desired, to be planned for with an intensity of love that gives it its title to being.

Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.

Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.

As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design.

As an advocate of birth control I wish ... to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation.... On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.