“Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.” FeminismBirthContemporaryPatriarchyPillsBirth ControlBirth Control Pills Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
“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.” StatesEnoughFoundUnitedUnited StatesBirthDrugEuropeTestsAvailableCaringAdministrationContemptPillsHormonesBirth ControlAmerican WomanNot CaringFdaDosageBirth Control Pills Author:Warren Farrell
“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.” MadePracticeRevolutionBirthDegreesMarriedDoctorsMajorityCourtSupremeSupreme CourtPillsBirth ControlPromiscuityUnconstitutionalContraceptivesSexual RevolutionBirth Control Pills Author:Beth Bailey
“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.” IdeasPhilosophyChangedBirthMachinesScience FictionInventionBombsPillsBirth ControlHydrogenHydrogen BombBirth Control Pills Author:Ray Bradbury
“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.” FirstsLongHardEnoughHomeOrderGirlPassionLeftExistenceBirthHusbandDenyEveningIntimateMy HusbandCravingPillsBirth ControlPorkDormantSwept AwaySatedBirth Control Pills Author:Roseanne Barr
“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.” YearsBelieveParentBirthPassingPassingsBurningFlagsPillsQuranBirth ControlInfidelAmerican FlagGuantanamoPassing OutBirth Control Pills Author:Ann Coulter
“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.” WantI CanRealBodyGuyCan DoFrontsBirthFeministStatementsPillsBirth ControlGroupieBirth Control Pills Author:Pamela Des Barres
“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.” FirstsHas BeensRealityThreeSexTermFantasySecurityBirthOffersDestructionThirdsCamerasNuclearInventionOur TimeNuclear WeaponsPillsBirth ControlWeaponryBirth Control Pills Author:Malcolm Muggeridge
“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.” KnowsKidsHappenedBirthPicksSuspicionPillsBirth ControlHboBirth Control Pills Author:Roseanne Barr
“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.)” KnowsShouldMeanArtHurtLike YouBirthFitDressesQuittingChessImmortalityBreastsMuseumsPillsBirth ControlPlaying ChessRetrospectiveBirth Control PillsPasadena Author:Eve Babitz
“Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word... [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!” SexMysteryBirthFleshMysticismRemembrancePillsMaterialisticBirth ControlBirth Control Pills Author:Malcolm Muggeridge
“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%.” AgeHalfRiskBirthCancerBreastsPillsSurveillanceInadequateReductionBreast CancerBirth ControlCarrierDetectionIncidenceOvariesOvarian CancerBirth Control Pills Author:Kristi Funk
“They're combining that new fertility drug with a birth control pill for people who don't want triplets.” PeopleWantBirthDrugPillsBirth ControlCombiningFertilityTripletBirth Control Pills Book:2000 new laughs for speakers: the ad-libber's handbook Source: 2000 new laughs for speakers: the ad-libber's handbook
“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."” NeedsShouldLordRocksTaughtBirthMoralityEthicsCatholicDearDespiteMy TimeMakersDistributionPillsIntroductionInventorApprovedOne WomanBirth ControlBirth Control Pills Author:Malcolm Gladwell