Birth Control Quotes

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

  Margaret Sanger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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  Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man's equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.

  Margaret Sanger

  Women, Goal, Important

  "Morality and Birth Control". "Birth Control Review", (pp. 11, 14), February-March 1918.

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  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

  Mother, Independent, Doe

  Woman and the New Race ch. 8 (1920)

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• If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too.

  Anna Quindlen

  Men, Would Be, Safe

  "Women Superior - That's No Garbage". New York Times News Service, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 06, 1986.

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• No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. If you don't like birth control, don't use it. Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Freedom, Women

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• For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

  Louise Slaughter

  Children, Care, Want

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• We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

  Dora Russell

  Children, Women, Memorable

  Hypatia ch. 4 (1925)

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• Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.

  Margaret Sanger

  Race, Practice, Individuality

  Margaret Sanger (1922). “Woman, morality, and birth control”

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• The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Literature, Hunger, Remedy

  "Portrait of a Planet" by Friedrich Durrenmatt, 1971.

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• Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Method, Sensible

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Self Restraint V. Self-indulgence”

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• I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.

  Rima Fakih

  Believe, Substance, Medication

  "Arab-American Crowned 2010 Miss USA". www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2010.

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• I don't believe there is one woman within the confines of this state who does not believe in birth control. I never met one. That is, I never met one who thought that she should be kept in ignorance of contraceptive methods. Many I have met who valued the knowledge they possessed, but thought there were certain other classes who would be better kept in ignorance. The old would protect the young. The rich would keep the poor in ignorance. The good would keep their knowledge from the bad, the strong from the weak.

  Crystal Eastman

  Strong, Believe, Ignorance

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, War, Pestilence

  Bertrand Russell (1971). “Ladislas Reymont: Romain Rolland ; Bertrand Russell”

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• My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny Love, Love You, Funny Relationship

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

  H. G. Wells

  Civilization, Heroines, Written

  Speech at Barber's Hall, London, in 1935. "Round the World for Birth Control", edited by the Birth Control International Information Centre, 1937.

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• Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.

  Brooke Shields

  People, Abortion, Use

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• Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sex

  Notebook, 1894

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• Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.

  Margaret Sanger

  Weed, Eugenics, Law

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.229, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.

  Kathy Ireland

  Argument, Found, Existence

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• It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.

  Malcolm Potts

  Funny, Humorous, Smoking

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• Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Adoption, Abortion, Atheism

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

  Freddy Fender

  Smile, Running, Sorry

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• The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Finals, Campaigns

  "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda". "Birth Control Review", (p. 5), October 1921.

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• Many good people, being influenced by the bold spirit of the times, are now seeking surgery for the wife or the husband so they may avoid pregnancies and comply with the strident voice demanding a reduction of children. It was never easy to bear and rear children, but easy things do not make for growth and development. But loud, blatant voices today shout 'fewer children' and offer the Pill, drugs, surgery, and even ugly abortion to accomplish that. Strange the proponents of depopulating the world seem never to have thought of continence!

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Husband, Children, Pregnancy

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• Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Race, Population

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