Birth Control Quotes

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

  Margaret Sanger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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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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  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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• We're more effective than birth control pills.

  Johnny Carson

  Pills, Comedy, Birth Control Pills

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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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• Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sex

  Notebook, 1894

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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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• 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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• The most successful educational approach to the Negro is throgh a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the Minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

  Margaret Sanger

  Religious, Educational, Successful

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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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• The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.

  Margaret Smith

  Naughty, Contraception, Contraceptives

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• Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  The Last Goon Show of All

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• 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.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Civilization, Class

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

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• Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change. It is an obscenity-an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women.

  Robin Morgan

  Fear, Hate, Evil

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• Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.

  Margaret Sanger

  Weed, Eugenics, Planned Parenthood

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• No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception.

  Emma Goldman

  Responsibility, Demand, Too Much

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.105, PM Press

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• The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.

  Patty Murray

  Fda, Abortion, Drug

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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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• At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when the population was two per square world.

  Israel Shenker

  Squares, Two, Catholic

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.

  Roseanne Barr

  Kids, Night, Bed

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

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• We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.

  Art Hoppe

  Naughty, Worry, Population

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• Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus.

  Robert Rubin

  Funny, Naughty, Sunglasses

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