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… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
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… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
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… — Dora Russell Copy Share
We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens. — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
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… — Dora Russell Copy Share
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects. — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
