... the ocean could not be swept back with a broom. The truth was out. It illuminated the world. Motherhood no longer cringed before the relentless laws of fecundity.

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.

Life in itself is a big classroom - so learn all the chapters of life well. This chapter of illness is but only one chapter. Learn whatever it has come to teach you and move on in life.

Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

It’s easy to be a hero when your own survival is aligned with someone else’s, when your victory is a victory for your entire clan.

My formula for success is rise early work late and strike oil.

Every death is like the burning of a library.

Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.

A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

I'm a T-shirts, sweatpants and jeans kind of gal, I dress really simply and comfortably.