Birth Control famous quotes

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

#Jumping #Technique #Birth Control

... I saw a small boy who belongs to one of those large families who only practice at birth control.
-- Anne Ellis

#Boys #Practice #Birth Control

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

#Parent #Birth Control #Poverty

Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born?
-- Benny Hill

#Hilarious #People #Birth Control

Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?
-- Benny Hill

#Favour #Birth Control #Abstinence

I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Population #Birth Control #Opponents

Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.
-- Brooke Shields

#People #Abortion #Birth Control

Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
-- Camille Paglia

#Feminism #Pills #Birth Control

Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.
-- Cecile Richards

#Years #Birth Control #Parenthood

It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.
-- Clare Short

#Country #Needs #Birth Control

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.
-- Dora Russell

#Firsts #Birth Control #Poor

Medications can lower a woman's sex drive and interfere with a woman's ability to climax. These medications include antidepressants, birth control pills and hormone medications. I only know of three antidepressants that do not interfere with a woman's sexual function.
-- Drew Pinsky

#Sex #Three #Birth Control

Sex Ed - when I finally got to take it - was all about biology and birth control and nothing about anything that actually goes on between people.
-- E. Lockhart

#Sex #People #Birth Control

Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.
-- Eleanor Clark

#Abortion #Criminals #Birth Control

If one is willing to have children, rhythm is probably the best method of contraception.
-- Elizabeth Hawes

#Children #Birth Control #Method

If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.
-- Faye Wattleton

#Rights #Birth Control #Able

[On being asked if she would favor birth control laws:] I will if you make it retroactive.
-- Florence Prag Kahn

#Law #Birth Control #Favors

Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time.
-- Frederick Osborn

#Abortion #Birth Control #Birth

The most important eugenic policy at this time is to see that birth control is made equally available to all individuals in every class of society
-- Frederick Osborn

#Class #Important #Birth Control

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt

#Birth Control #Birth #Hunger

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
-- H. G. Wells

#Civilization #Birth Control #Birth

[W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning of time to 'multiply and replenish the earth.' Surely those who project such measures to prevent life or to destroy life before or after birth will reap the whirlwind of God's retribution, for God will not be mocked.
-- Harold B. Lee

#Birth Control #Earth #Sin

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
-- Harri Holkeri

#Thinking #Giving #Birth Control

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
-- Havelock Ellis

#Birth Control #Birth #Social

The Church has always advised against birth control and that is the only position the Church can take in view of our beliefs with respect to the eternity of the marriage covenant and the purpose of this divine relationship.
-- Hugh B. Brown

#Views #Church #Birth Control

The problem of birth control and voluntary barrenness is poisoning the very fountains of life and defying God's injunction to multiply and replenish the earth.
-- Hugh B. Brown

#Birth Control #Earth #Problem

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
-- Indira Gandhi

#Birth Control #Affluence #Birth

Without liberals we wouldn't have unions. We wouldn't have environmental protections. We wouldn't have seat belts or birth control or the ACLU! Any of these things!
-- Janeane Garofalo

#Environmental #Birth Control #Unions

He squinted at me. "What are you wearing? Is that some new form of birth control?
-- Janet Evanovich

#Birth Control #Birth #Form

We're more effective than birth control pills.
-- Johnny Carson

#Pills #Birth Control #Birth

After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.
-- Karen DeCrow

#Abortion #Would Be #Birth Control

There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.
-- Kathy Ireland

#Birth Control #Argument #Found

The acceptability of birth control has always depended on a morality that separates sex from reproduction. In the nineteenth century, when the birth control movement began, such a separation was widely considered immoral. The eventual widespread public acceptance of birth control required a major reorientation of sexual values.
-- Linda Gordon

#Sex #Acceptance #Birth Control

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.
-- Louise Slaughter

#Children #Birth Control #Care

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.
-- Margaret Sanger

#Race #Birth Control #Birth

More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.
-- Margaret Sanger

#Children #Birth Control #Fit

Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods.
-- Margaret Sanger

#Race #Different #Birth Control

Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.
-- Margaret Sanger

#Weed #Law #Birth Control

The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.
-- Margaret Sanger

#Eugenics #Finals #Birth Control

Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.
-- Margaret Sanger

#Weed #Birth Control #Birth

Has knowledge of birth control, so carefully guarded and so secretly practiced by the women of the wealthy class - and so tenaciously withheld from the working women - brought them misery? Rather, has it not promoted greater happiness, greater freedom, greater prosperity and more harmony among them? The women who have this knowledge are the women who have been free to develop, free to enjoy in its best sense, and free to advance the interests of the community.
-- Margaret Sanger

#Class #Community #Birth Control

Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.
-- Margaret Sanger

#Ideas #People #Birth Control

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.
-- Marie Stopes

#Civilization #Birth Control #Modern

Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
-- Melinda Gates

#People #Birth Control #Agendas

My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.
-- Morena Baccarin

#Mother #Goes On #Birth Control

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.
-- Ray Bradbury

#Philosophy #Ideas #Birth Control

You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.
-- Redd Foxx

#Wish #Birth Control #Birth

Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.
-- Richard Mitchell

#Long #Facts #Birth Control

I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.
-- Rima Fakih

#Believe #Birth Control #Substance

I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.
-- Tahj Mowry

#People #Nephew #Birth Control

As a woman, birth control can really mess you up. Like, I switched and it completely messed me up - not completely, but I just started breaking out and as soon as I got off it, my skin was completely clear again.
-- Nina Agdal

#Skins #Birth Control #Clear

I would never give artificial birth control to an unmarried person.
-- Judie Brown

#Giving #Birth Control #Persons