Margaret Sanger Quotes

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.
Margaret Sanger

Family, Merciful, Infant

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

Mom, Ignorance, Children

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, Woman, Control

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

Women, Care, Children

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

Medical, Today, Past

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.
Margaret Sanger

Business, Facts, Conceal

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, Marriage, Woman

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

Life, War, Woman

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, Challenge, Around

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.
Margaret Sanger

Cannot, Free, Mothers

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

Freedom, Attitude, Alone

Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly).
Margaret Sanger

Mother, Person, Poverty

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

Time, Death, Alone

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.
Margaret Sanger

Health, Great, Woman

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: September 14, 1879

Died: September 6, 1966

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