The cramped three-room apartment was in a sorry state of turmoil. "My patient was a small, slight Russian Jewess, about twenty-eight years old, of the special cast of feature to which suffering lends a madonna-like expression. In July 1912 she was summoned to a Grand Street tenement.
Sanger joined the Socialist Party and became friends with other radicals such as John Reed, Upton Sinclair, Mabel Dodge, Robert Minor, Agnes Smedley, Kate Richards O'Hare, Eugene Debs, Elizabeth Flynn, Norman Thomas and Emma Goldman. When her three children were old enough to go to school she returned to work as a public health nurse in the slums of New York. Since the birth of my first child I had realized the importance of spacing babies, but only a few months before had I fully grasped the significant fact that a powerful law denied and prevented mothers from obtaining knowledge to properly space their families." I wanted to share these joys with other women. In her autobiography she wrote: "My own motherhood was joyous, loving, happy. Over the next 12 years she devoted herself to being a housewife and mother. After moving to Saranac for health reasons she gave birth to three children. Educated at Claverack College, she became a trained nurse and married William Sanger, an architect, in 1902. Her mother also had seven more babies that died in childhood, before dying of cervical cancer. Margaret Higgens was born in Corning, New York, on 14th September 1883.
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