quotations about birth control
If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They’d be inexpensive, too.
ANNA QUINDLEN
Living Out Loud
Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.
ARISTOTLE
Politics
I don’t believe there is one woman within the confines of this state who does not believe in birth control. I never met one. That is, I never met one who thought that she should be kept in ignorance of contraceptive methods. Many I have met who valued the knowledge they possessed, but thought there were certain other classes who would be better kept in ignorance. The old would protect the young. The rich would keep the poor in ignorance. The good would keep their knowledge from the bad, the strong from the weak.
CRYSTAL EASTMAN
On Women and Revolution
Political analysts say the key voting bloc could be birth control moms. Birth control moms are women who use birth control but apparently not correctly.
CONAN O'BRIEN
Conan, Feb. 21, 2012
My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.
JOAN RIVERS
attributed, On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes
Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man’s equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.
MARGARET SANGER
"Morality and Birth Control,", Birth Control Review, Feb-Mar. 1918
Birth control that really works: Every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
ROSEANNE BARR
attributed, Woman to Woman
I am pro-choice, but I find that abortion is a failure of the feminist establishment. With every kind of birth control available in the world, abortion is not something to be proud of. If you need an abortion, you’ve failed.
TAMMY BRUCE
speech at Columbia University, Apr. 6, 2005
Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, “Adoption, not Abortion,” although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.
BARBARA EHRENREICH
The Worst Years of Our Lives
I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).
A.J. JACOBS
The Know-It-All
Daddy says 'don't need no birth control'
That's li'l jack horny
EXTREME
"Li'l Jack Horny"
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
H.L. MENCKEN
Notebooks
I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said "No."
WOODY ALLEN
attributed, Woody Allen: Clown Prince of American Humor
It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.
MALCOLM POTTS
attributed, Quotable Quotes
The subject of birth control is being lifted out of the mire into which it was cast by puritanism and given its proper place among the sciences and the ideals of this generation. With this effort has come an illumination of all other social problems. Society is beginning to give ear to the promise of modern womanhood.
MARGARET SANGER
Woman and the New Race
Consider the problem of over-population. Rapidly mounting human numbers are pressing ever more heavily on natural resources. What is to be done?... The annual increase of numbers should be reduced. But how? We are given two choices -- famine, pestilence and war on the one hand, birth control on the other. Most of us choose birth control.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Brave New World Revisited
You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.
POPE PAUL VI
speech, Oct. 4, 1965
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
DORA RUSSELL
attributed, Man in Our Image
You see, they were Mothers, not in our sense of helpless involuntary fecundity, forced to fill and overfill the land, every land, and then see their children suffer, sin, and die, fighting horribly with one another; but in the sense of Conscious Makers of People.
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
The Forerunner
Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers--and before it can be his, it is hers alone. She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.
MARGARET SANGER
Woman and the New Race