Source: The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation, p. 18
“When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.”
1935 speech at Barber's Hall, London, included in Round the World for Birth Control (1937) edited by the Birth Control International Information Centre
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