Margaret Sanger Quotes

A collection of quotes by Margaret Sanger.

Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was an American birth control activist and reproductive rights advocate. She played a crucial role in popularizing the concept of contraception and fiercely campaigned for women's access to birth control methods. Sanger founded the American Birth Control League, which later evolved into Planned Parenthood. Her work aimed to empower women, challenge societal taboos surrounding reproductive matters, and promote family planning as a means for women's emancipation and overall well-being. Sanger's tireless efforts continue to have a significant impact on women's reproductive rights and freedom of choice.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence o

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

Margaret Sanger

Medical

Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once be

Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.

Margaret Sanger

Time Love Thetimes

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe i

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.

Margaret Sanger

Alone

Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should

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.

Margaret Sanger

Women

The submission of her body without love or desire is degradi

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

Margaret Sanger

Marriage

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will cont

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.

Margaret Sanger

War

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choo

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

Margaret Sanger

Alone

A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the

A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place. The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

Margaret Sanger

Sex

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control

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.

Margaret Sanger


When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not th

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.

Margaret Sanger

Mom

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Margaret Sanger

Business

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its inf

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

Margaret Sanger

Family