How we cite our quotes: (Sentence)
Quote #4
"Can you provide a happy home for one? A sunny nursery? Proper food?"
"What's that you say? Ten children already? Two dark rooms in the slums?"
"No, thank you! I don't care to be born at all if I cannot be well-born. Good-bye!" (83-91)
The (unborn) baby is still interviewing his father, and wow, this kid sounds like a little snob. He doesn't want to be born unless his parents meet all Margaret Sanger's requirements for parenthood. We get it—we'd all like to be born with a silver spoon in our mouths, but this is a bit excessive. Still, look at where Sanger is coming from: a nursing career in the slums, where she no doubt saw children born into truly horrifying conditions. That's what's driving her, and why her insistence on limiting the size of poverty stricken families is so strong.