Paul Di Filippo Quotes

Placing Margaret Sanger on the $20 bill will remind us of what she has done for women and our reproductive health and how the fight for reproductive freedom is an ongoing one.

Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies.

Look at somebody like Margaret Sanger, who was married young and had kids but then left her husband and wound up living a kind of single life as she got into the founding of what would become Planned Parenthood.

What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to limit access to contraception and legal abortion, they are relegating women to another century, a time when men ruled exclusively and women were considered property and had to be guided by a firm masculine hand.

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

Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family. Our no-fault insurance has removed our responsibility for car accidents, and no-fault divorce has removed our responsibility for marriage accidents; why should abortion not be our no-fault sexual insurance policy that removes our responsibility for sex accidents?

Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.

I don't believe that bureaucrats in Washington should tell someone whether they can use contraceptives or not. And I don't believe employers should tell someone whether they could have contraceptive care of not. Every woman in America should have access to contraceptives.

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

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

Women in America... cannot trust Mitt Romney to protect our health.

if you search the bible, you will find no reference to birth control or gay marriage, and you will not find a word, strangely, about stem cell research. I have searched.

All I can say on women's issues and women's health issues, there will be nobody better than Donald Trump.

Birth control is the means by which woman attains basic freedom.

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.

Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us.

The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births.

I never wrote a check to Planned Parenthood.

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

We're living in an age of genocide. ...And we do believe that there is not only the genocide of war, and the genocide that took place with the extermination of the Jews, but the whole program....of birth control and abortion is another form of genocide.... [T]hey claim the poor are bringing forth tremendous numbers of children and so the solution is to kill them off.

I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true.

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.

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

Romney, Gingrich, Santorum spent their week lecturing America about the morality of birth control. You know, you guys don't need birth control, you are birth control.