Birth Control Pills Quotes:

The birth control pill, to a great degree, made possible the (hetero)sexual revolution. Yet those who developed oral contraceptives did not intend their work to promote what the majority of Americans at the time called "promiscuity." Doctors generally refused to prescribe the pill to women who were not married; the Supreme Court did not rule this practice unconstitutional until 1972.

- Beth Bailey

topic: Practice, Doctors, Birth Control Pills, Unconstitutional, Contraceptives

The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in terms of sterility, the second reality in terms of fantasy, and the third security in terms of destruction.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

topic: Sex, Reality, Birth Control Pills, Weaponry

Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.

- Tom DeLay

topic: Mother, Teaching, School, Daycare, Working Parents

We're more effective than birth control pills.

- Johnny Carson

topic: Pills, Birth Control, Birth, Birth Control Pills

Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

- Camille Paglia

source: Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.38, Vintage

topic: Feminism, Pills, Birth Control, Birth Control Pills

I had one kid with the birth control pill, I had one with the diaphram and I had one with the I.U.D. I don't even know what happened with my I.U.D. It never came out. But I have my suspicions because that kid picks up HBO.

- Roseanne Barr

topic: Kids, Hbo, Pills, Birth Control Pills

Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be afraid to meet your maker." Rock, despite being Catholic replied, "My dear Madam, in my faith, we are taught that the Lord is with us always. When my time comes, there will be no need for introductions."

- Malcolm Gladwell

topic: Rocks, Catholic, Taught, Birth Control Pills, One Woman

You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you know, it was like they blew up like. You know, they wouldn't fit into any of my dresses. I had to quit taking those birth control pills... This was like - I mean they were like, I thought they should be photographed really... So they were, for immortality. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)

- Eve Babitz

topic: Hurt, Art, Mean, Pasadena, Retrospective

When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power . . . Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!

- Malcolm Muggeridge

topic: Sex, Fall, Rain, Birth Control Pills, Sacred Texts

Risk reduction for BRCA2 carriers includes taking tamoxifen. Removing ovaries prior to age 40 drops breast cancer risk in half. Ovarian cancer surveillance is unfortunately inadequate at early detection, but birth control pills reduce ovarian cancer incidence up to 60%.

- Kristi Funk

source: Source: www.marieclaire.com

topic: Cancer, Risk, Age, Incidence, Ovarian Cancer

A real groupie is someone who loves the music and wants to do it with the guys who make it and someone who goes after what they want, so a groupie is a feminist thing. A woman who goes after what she wants is a feminist. So I've never been anything but a feminist. I took the birth control pill on the Strip in front of everybody and that was my statement. I control my body, I can do whatever the heck I want.

- Pamela Des Barres

topic: Real, Feminist, Guy, Groupie, Birth Control Pills

Liberals believe in burning the American flag, urinating on crucifixes, and passing out birth control pills to 11-year-olds without telling their parents -- but God forbid an infidel touch a Quran at Guantanamo.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Believe, Years, Parent, Passing Out, Birth Control Pills

I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate evening with my husband, I was swept away by the passion (so dormant inside myself) of a long and tortured existence. The physical cravings I had tried so hard to deny, finally and ultimately sated ... But enough about the pork.

- Roseanne Barr

topic: Girl, Husband, Passion, Birth Control Pills, Sated

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Philosophy, Ideas, Birth Control, Hydrogen Bomb, Birth Control Pills

When birth control pills were available in Europe but not in the United States, American women created an uproar about how the unwillingness to make the pill available showed a contempt for the lives of women... When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released birth control pills with high dosages of hormones that were later found to be unnecessarily high, they were attacked for not caring about women enough to do the necessary tests.

- Warren Farrell

topic: Caring, Fda, Europe, Dosage, Birth Control Pills

Medications can lower a woman's sex drive and interfere with a woman's ability to climax. These medications include antidepressants, birth control pills and hormone medications. I only know of three antidepressants that do not interfere with a woman's sexual function.

- Drew Pinsky

source: "Dissatisfied, ladies? Tips to reach the Big O". TODAY interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

topic: Sex, Three, Birth Control, Antidepressants, Sex Drive

They're combining that new fertility drug with a birth control pill for people who don't want triplets.

- Robert Orben

source: Robert Orben (1978). “2000 new laughs for speakers: the ad-libber's handbook”, Random House Value Pub

topic: People, Drug, Pills, Triplet, Birth Control Pills