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.

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.

As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change...

I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

Every woman should be “absolute mistress of her own body.

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.

More children from the fit, less from the unfit – that is the chief aim of birth control.

The basic freedom of the world is woman’s freedom.

Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must – if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom – we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith.

Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.