Margaret Sanger

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Katharine McCormick, biologist & millionaire philanthropist | Amazing Women In History
1917 Katherine McCormick, first female biology graduate from MIT and millionaire philanthropist, aligns with Margaret Sanger and smuggles diaphragms into the US. Unlike condoms, diaphragms put control of fertility in women’s hands. Later she funds research that leads to the pill.
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#quote "Woman must not accept; she must challenge... She must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression." -Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger- Birth control pioneer who first worked as a nurse, where she witnessed first-hand the health hazards of unwanted pregnancy. Her fifty-year crusade to educate women about birth control resulted in numerous arrests on charges of obscenity and the founding of what was to become the Planned Parenthood Federation.
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Margaret Sanger: "No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her own body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother." #feminism