Marie Carmichael Stopes

“Sex is a sacrament.”

“It is a woman's right to be joyously and not forcibly married.”

“Birth control is the first important step a woman must take toward the goal of her own emancipation.”

“The greatest danger to the future of the race is the unbalance of the birthrate.”

“Every child should be a wanted child.”

“We want a world peopled by the splendid, the beautiful, and the brilliant.”

“Married love is the main-spring of human energy.”

“There is nothing in nature which is evil. This is a truth which is difficult for the human mind to accept.”

“You can't have a new world with old men.”

“Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always spring.”

“Children in their mothers' arms are cannon fodder of the future.”

“To be a mother is a great, a sacred, and a glorious thing.”