Margaret Sanger was born on September 14, 1879 in Corning, New York. Little did she know that she would soon be the one who would change the lives of women everywhere. Margaret Sanger was thought of to be a progressive and a racist. She also fit in with paternalists and social Darwinists of her time period. Margaret Sanger devoted her life to educating women and making birth control available to all women throughout the world. The increased …showed first 75 words of 722 total…

…showed last 75 words of 722 total…I went to bed, knowing that no matter what it might cost, I was finished with palliatives and superficial cures; I was resolved to seek out the root of evil, to do something to change the destiny of mothers whose miseries were vast as the sky." Through her extensive research, publications, and establishments, Margaret Sanger demonstrated the amazing benefits of birth control on the emotional, physical, and economic well being of women and their families.