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Margaret Sanger was a 19th-century American birth control activist and nurse. Margaret Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, founded Planned Parenthood, and was instrumental in the development of the first birth control pill. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“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.”
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“No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”
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“A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she has no response, it should ...”
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“Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we mustif we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdomwe must put our convictions into...”
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