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No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call… — Margaret Sanger

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.

Margaret Sanger
Woman and the New Race · 1920
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Women's rights
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1920
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Margaret Sanger
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Sanger, Margaret. Woman and the New Race. Brentano's, 1920, ch. 8.

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