Margaret Sanger Quotes

1879–1966, American birth control activist
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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.”
VerifiedWoman and the New Race, (1922), Chapter 8, "Birth Control; A Parents' Problem or Woman's?" · evidenceBirth Control
“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.”
Sex