Women must have economic and social equality with men.

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 more to life than just living.

Life is nothing short of a phenomenon. In every sense life is mysterious and unfathomable.

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

I think [the spotlight] is a lonely place to be. Everybodys wanting something from you, pulling at you.

My teeth weren't that good to begin with, so hopefully I can get some better ones.

The food you eat today is walking and talking tomorrow.

I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.

Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.