I wanted each woman to be a rebellious Vashti, not an Esther.

On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

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.

How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds.

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

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.

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

Eugenics is ... the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.

Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.

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.

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

There is a case and a strong case for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

Quality is pride of workmanship.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.

[Donald] Trump would want to cosy up to him for sure, and he'd be right to do that. Which would be good for the world.

Being a friend of Fischer obviously is no undivided pleasure, though being Fischer seems sadder.

Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.

Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.