In an ideal society, no doubt, birth control would become the concern  of the man as well as the woman.  The hard inescapable fact which we  encounter to-day  is that man has not only refused any such  responsibility, but has  individually and collectively sought to prevent  woman from obtaining  knowledge by which she could assume this  responsibility for herself.   She is still in a state of a dependent  to-day because her mate has refused to consider her as an individual  apart from his needs.  She is still bound because  she has in the past  left the solution of the problem to him. Having  left it to him she  finds that instead of rights, she has only such  privileges as she has  gained by petitioning, coaxing and cozening.  Having left it to him, she  is exploited, driven and enslaved to his  desires.”
(1920  Woman and the New Race pp. 96-97)
March 22, 2011
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