my book, "margaret sanger" a life of passion, is an effort to re-situated sanger, to place her in the context of her times, especially insofar as 20th century genesis him is concerned. the great story of her life it seems to me is how a young, uneducated nobody without money or contacts, without training in the persuasive techniques of lecturing and writing, a woman who suffered from tuberculosis for much of her early life, and in her later life heart trouble and gallbladder disease. how did this woman become the leader of an effective campaign to make contraception legal, cheap, effect did, and accessible. it was none of these things. when she began that summer in 1912, it was all of those things. when she died in 1966. when she began, sanger faced a daunting task. she had to reorient sexual values. she had to gain acceptance for the revolutionary notion that sex and reproduction could be separate. anyone here think that it wouldn't be separate, and that by the way is one of her contributions to both men and women. and women could enjoy sex without worrying about urgency. in this str