... it has always been the depth of my belief, my faith, or my love that was the mainspring of my behavior. When once I believed in doing a thing, nothing could prevent my doing it.

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

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

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

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

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.

Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward to seeing humanity free someday of the tryanny of Christianity no less than Capitalism.