Famous quotes containing the words birth control, american, birth and/or control:
“Birth control that really works: Every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.”
—Roseanne Barr Arnold (20th century)
“I have fallen in love with American names,”
—Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943)
“To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“In view of the fact that the number of people living too long has risen catastrophically and still continues to rise.... Question: Must we live as long as modern medicine enables us to?... We control our entry into life, it is time we began to control our exit.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)