Dora Russell Professions : Author Born : April 3, 1894 Died : May 31, 1986 Browse All Authors Top 32 quotes by Dora Russell Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation. Dora Russell self children school Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs. Dora Russell dictator society running 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. Dora Russell quests our-world knowledge There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex. Dora Russell teaching religious sex We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Dora Russell offering guidance wisdom 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. Dora Russell party common might 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. Dora Russell path animal lying 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. Dora Russell poor birth-control firsts We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Dora Russell women memorable children You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College. Dora Russell you man tea men The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more. Dora Russell doctor woman me angry Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary. Dora Russell did our competition school Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors