"You could not receive a young man in……" — Dora Russell
"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."
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Dora Russell
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17 Quotes by Dora Russell
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We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
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Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.
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Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman's individual entity and the necessity of economic independence.…
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We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only…
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Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class…
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Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
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If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to…
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We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed…
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Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up…
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We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.
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Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation…
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
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