Quote by Margaret Sanger
Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not ha

Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion. – Margaret Sanger

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The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the womans finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding. – Margaret Sanger

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Marriage
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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 mans attitude may be, that problem is hers – and before it can be his, it is hers alone. – Margaret Sanger

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alone
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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

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alone
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One is not born a woman, one becomes one. – Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949

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Women

Stress was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted, petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification. – Julie Burchill

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Women

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isnt worth ruling. – Louisa May Alcott

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Women

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it. – Andrea Dworkin

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Women

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Balance is the enemy of art. – Richard Eyre

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Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in Batman Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy. – Tom Hiddleston

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