Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapes exceed the unlawful ones a million to one.

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.

Miss Masters was not content with threatening to hire away his staff, oh no. First, she had to perfume it.

Without grace, there is no gratitude.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

We believe world peace is inevitable.

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

Most of us forget the basics and wonder why the specifics don't work.

And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.

But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.