Margaret Sanger: 1913 to 1920

In 1913, Margaret Sanger separated from her husband as she moved back to America from Paris while her husband stayed to pursue his passion for art. The next year, she began the Woman Rebel, where she advocated for an "empowered" woman with the slogan "No Gods, No Masters." Margaret Sanger was one of the first women to push birth control onto women as a way to free themselves from the consequences of having children.

Margaret Sanger was also a supporter of eugenics, which means the selective breeding within certain races of humans while trying to exclude the reproduction of others. At the same time that hardworking, family-loving mothers were about to be able to vote, Sanger was spearheading a movement which tried to pervert women's newfound suffrage into something it was never meant to be.

In 1920, she finalized the divorce from her husband and published her first book..."Woman and The New Race," where she continued to advocate for birth control for the purpose of limiting the world's population.

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