Mary Calderone Quotes

We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.

We're still a sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons.

Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

Abortion is the taking of a life.

I don't want to control anybody's mind or anybody's heart -- I just want to help free people from the concert of sex as evil instead of a gift from God.

Our children are not going to be just "our children"

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.