The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.

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.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands

For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.

The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

If you asked me one day, I might say, "Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious." If you asked me another day, I'd just say flat out, "No."

My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

The idea that we should be open to all ideas is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.

Step out onto the Planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe nobody's ever really seen. How many can you find?

Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted, the same pleasures.

Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.

The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.