Margaret Sanger's Leadership Lessons for Today
Sunday, August 30, 2009 at 09:38PM Who inspires you as a leader?
So often during my 30 years with Planned Parenthood and since as an activist author and speaker, I've turned to stories about Margaret Sanger for inspiration and encouragement when I've faced tough challenges. What must it have been like for her when she started out, with little money, at a time when birth control and even 
Here's Margaret looking happy as a clam while being arraigned on charges of providing birth control to women--she knew it was an opportunity to build public sentiment for her cause.dispensing information about it was illegal?
But if, as I believe firmly, a leader is someone who gets things done, then Margaret (having worn her mantle, I feel we're on a first-name basis) was a leader par excellence. She founded the movement to bring birth control to American women and the organization that today is called Planned Parenthood.
"We must put our convictions into action," she was fond of saying.
That's why I'm looking forward with such great excitement to speaking at the Brooklyn Museum on Sunday, September 13, at 2pm on "Margaret Sanger's Legacy and Leadership Lessons for Today." It's the perfect date, because September 14 is the birthday of this visionary leader. And the museum is the perfect location too, since her first birth control clinic was opened in Brooklyn in 1916--you can read that story as I wrote it for the New York Times.
I'll get to tell several of my favorite stories about Margaret's life and work, the history of the birth-control movement, the role that birth control plays in women's equality and empowerment, and what activists and other leaders today can learn from Sanger.
By the way, Margaret Sanger is a featured guest in The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago. Be sure to take a look at that fantastic installation while you are at the museum. Her plate fittingly is graced with fiery red female genitalia.
The lecture will be in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Forum, on the 4th floor. I hope you'll join me.
Reader Comments (6)
Didn't Sanger promote eugenics. That can't be good!
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