Margaret Sanger
(1879-1966)

American Women's Rights Activist
Planned Parenthood Founder

National Women's Hall of Fame
1957 Humanist of the Year

Margaret Sanger Awards

birthdate: September 14
birthplace:
Corning, New York

QUOTES

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.

Greater understanding and practice of planned parenthood, through the use of contraceptive measures prescribed by doctors and clinics, will mean that there will be more strong and healthy children and fewer defective and handicapped babies unable to find a useful or happy place in life.

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.

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.

 

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