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  • anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.

  • Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

    Children   School   Self  
    Dora Russell (1975). “The Tamarisk Tree: My quest for liberty and love”
  • I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags without doing any of the fighting. From a woman such words, though displaying inexperience, might come with dignity; from a man they are an unforgivable, intolerable insult. What is man's part in sex but a perpetual waving of flags and blowing of trumpets and avoidance of the fighting?

    Sex   Fighting   Men  
  • We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

    "Challenge to the Cold War". Book by Dora Russell, Vol. 3, Ch. 14, 1985.
  • Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

  • Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature.

    Lying   Animal   Path  
  • Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

    Party   Might   Common  
  • Strictly speaking, no person who believes that wars between classes and nations are inevitable is fit to be in charge of the destiny of children. To believe in the unity of the human race and get children to believe it in early youth would mean the creation of that unity and the end of war.

    Children   War   Believe  
    "The Right to Be Happy". Book by Dora Russell, ch. v, p. 205, 1927.
  • There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.

  • What does one do about the dead? They live forever.

  • What a denial of our humanity that at the centers of power, where decisions are made, there is no room for nurturing, for love, and children. There is more to life than the 'inhuman' work place. It is terrible that many men do not know that: it is a tragedy if women follow them.

  • We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Nor should we represent motherhood as something so common and easy that everyone can go through it without harm or suffering and rear her children competently and well.

    "Hypatia". Book by Dora Russell, ch. 4, 1925.
  • I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on all our creative instincts.

    Dora Russell (1975). “The Tamarisk Tree: My quest for liberty and love”
  • We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

    Mean   Government   Class  
  • Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.

  • If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

    Children   Adults   Use  
  • Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the universe. Our rigid separation of the humanities and the sciences has temporarily left our art stranded or stammering and incoherent. Both art and science ought to be blended in our early education of our children's emotions and powers of observation, and that harmony carried forward in later education.

    Art   Children   Mean  
    "The Right to Be Happy". Book by Dora Russell, ch. v, p. 235, 1927.
  • The origin of the stupid ideal of womanhood against which men as well as women to-day are still fighting was the asceticism of the Christian religion; and, unless St. Paul was a woman in disguise, I fail to see how woman is to be blamed for a conception of her place and duty from which she has suffered more than anybody else.

  • Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman's individual entity and the necessity of economic independence. Perhaps it was necessary. But now I think we need some emphasis on the instinctive side of life, sex and motherhood.... Life isn't all earning your living. Unfortunately we fall in love and Feminism must take that into consideration.

    "Who is Dora Black?". Equal Rights Magazine, June 5, 1926.
  • We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

    "Tamarisk Tree Volume 3: Challenge to the Cold War". Book by Dora Russell , ch. 14, 1985.
  • One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep going. More and more television sets. More and more cars. More and more steel, and more and more pollution. We don't question whether we need any more or what we'll do with them. We just have to keep on making more and more if we are to keep going. Sooner or later it's going to collapse. ... Look what we have done already with the principle of more and more when it comes to nuclear weapons.

    Car   Principles   Needs  
  • We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

    Hypatia ch. 4 (1925)
  • Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

    Marriage   Army   Law  
    "The Right to Be Happy". Book by Dora Russell, p. 241, 1927.
  • Comfort is bought at too high a price.

    Comfort  
    Dora Russell (1975). “The Tamarisk Tree: My quest for liberty and love”
  • We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

    "The Tamarisk Tree: Challenge to the Cold War". Book by Dora Russell, Vol. 3, Ch. 14, 1985.
  • Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.

    Philosophy   Men   Long  
  • Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

  • Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

    "The Religion of the Machine Age". Book by Dora Russell, 1983.
  • Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

    Spring   Hymns   People  
    Dora Russell (1975). “The Tamarisk Tree: My quest for liberty and love”
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