“The marriage-bed is the most degenerating influence of the social order.”

— Margaret Sanger

Alice Groff, "The Marriage Bed", The Woman Rebel, V.I No. 5, p. 39 (edited by Margaret Sanger)
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American birth control activist, educator and nurse 1879–1966

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