A. J. Jacobs Quotes

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.

The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.

Has knowledge of birth control, so carefully guarded and so secretly practiced by the women of the wealthy class – and so tenaciously withheld from the working women – brought them misery? Rather, has it not promoted greater happiness, greater freedom, greater prosperity and more harmony among them? The women who have this knowledge are the women who have been free to develop, free to enjoy in its best sense, and free to advance the interests of the community.

Every year, Planned Parenthood serves three million Americans - men and women - and one in five women will receive care at a Planned Parenthood clinic in her lifetime.

Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

I don't believe in birth control.

Thoughtful education programs and access to effective forms of contraception are key to preventing unplanned pregnancy.

So we want to free the women of America? You know what would free the women of America? Make men accept responsibility for birth control.

Contraception is a couple's issue.

Contraception has to be available for anybody who needs it.

Contraception leads to more babies being born out of wedlock, like fire extinguishers lead to more fires.

Children are wonderful. It don't take plenty y'know. Just a nice girl who don't take birth control. Sexual intercourse is a lovely thing.

My number one advice to high school girls is birth control. You want to keep all your options open for as long as possible? Birth control.

I'd much rather have AIDS than a baby... They're not that different at all. They're both expensive, you have them for the rest of your life, they're constant reminders of the mistakes you've made and once you have them, you pretty much can only date other people who have them.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.

It is clear that Americans have a right to birth control.

The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of intelligence and human understanding.

I would like to ask each of you: Would you be in favor of some kind of education on birth control and if so, how would you use that as a possible solution to the ever present question of abortion.

More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.

The first time I had sex, I was scared I got the girl pregnant. And that was despite the fact we were safe. Luckily, we were fine. I would never risk not wearing a condom, it’s too much of a risk. If you’re not ready for a child, then don’t risk it.

Every era in history has needed, and will need, reproductive health services.

And if the problem [with contraception] is promiscuity, then why does the immense popularity of Viagra go unchecked? Doesn't it make more sense to leave the bullets out of the gun than to try to avoid being shot? Especially when the gun is an old musket, and you have to clean it out and tamp down gunpowder, melt down scraps of lead and pour it into a mold, wait for it to cool - only to have it take forever to finally go off?