Margaret Sanger"Women are too inclined to follow in the footsteps of men, to try to think as men think, to try to solve the general problems of life as men solve them... Woman is not necessary to do man's work. She is necessary to think man's thoughts... Her mission is not to exalt the male spirit, but to express the feminine, hers is not to preserve a made world. by man, but to create a human world; by the infusion of the feminine element into all its activities." I'm Margaret Sanger and this is how I feel. God put us in this world not to follow in someone else's footsteps but to create our own. Before I continue and tell you all my opinions, I need to explain to all of you how I came to be this way. I will explain my life story to you. I was born September 14, 1879, in Corning, New York. My desire for women to have more freedom began long before the public had ever heard of me. He was born when I was just a little girl. My parents had a great influence on me and supported me a lot in every decision I made. My father gave me all the mental tools I needed to make my life successful. My father was a radical. He taught me to question everything and stand up for what I believed in. My mother was also a great woman. Even though she was dealing with a lot of kids and didn't have much time for each of us, I loved her dearly. My mother had died at an early age from tuberculosis, due to the number of children she had had. At that time there were no contraceptives. Due to my mother's death I came to the conclusion that I wanted to work with pregnant women. I needed to help women who were in the position my mother was in or who simply needed help. In 1896 I attended Claverack College and the Hudson River Institute. I later entered the nursing program at White Plains Hospital and around that time met my husband, an architect, William Sanger. After finishing the nursing program I got a job as a nurse in the ghettos of New York. I've dealt with a lot of horrible things.