1. “When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children, will become the foundation of a new race.”
2. “The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order.”
3. “Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.”
4. “No woman can herself free who does not control her own body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother”
5. “Eugenics is… the most adequate and through avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.”
6. “Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.”
7. “Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.”
8. “Birth control is nothing more or less than… weeding out the unfit”
9. “A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.”
10. “The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman’s finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.”
11. “Woman must not accept; she must challenge.”
12. “Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing an multiplying… demonstrating our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism.”
13. “The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.”
14. “No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.”
15. “The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.”
