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
Love, Woman, Desire, Sensibility
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
Woman, Medical, Profession, Arises
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
Death, Through, Coerce, Babe
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
Woman, Will, Makes, Limits
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
Woman, Average, More, Working Man
Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.
- Margaret Sanger
Woman, Been, Which, Struggles
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.
- Margaret Sanger
Other, Conceal, Violently, Denounce
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
Woman, Own, Will, Herself
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
Deep, Mom, New, Accident
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
Woman, Will, May, Regardless
A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.
- Margaret Sanger
Born, Race, Mothers, Slave
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