Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Tribute to Birth ControlIn February of 1935, Margaret Sanger celebrated the 21st anniversary of the birth control movement by holding a "Birth Control Comes of Age Dinner," in Washington DC. Many prominent individuals attended and/or sent statements congratulating Sanger on her achievement. Among them was feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who could not attend, but sent the following poem (Gilman to MS, Feb. 7, 1935, LCM,44:16):