Birth Control Pills

Famous quotes containing the words birth, control and/or pills:

    O take fast hold; let that light be thy guide
    In this small course which birth draws out to death,
    Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

    The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient.... They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.
    Strabo (c. 58 B.C.–c. 24 A.D., Greek geographer. Geographia, bk. 1, sct. 2, subsct. 8.

    I know a lot of wonderful men married to pills, and I know a lot of pills married to wonderful women. So one shouldn’t judge that way.
    Barbara Bush (b. 1925)