Dora Russell
Dora Russell
Dora, Countess Russellwas a British author, a feminist and socialist campaigner, and the second wife of the eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCelebrity
Date of Birth3 April 1894
birth-control firsts poor
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.
children motherhood knowing
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.
forever doe live-forever
What does one do about the dead? They live forever.
prayer answers machines
Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
car needs nuclear
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.
art children mean
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.
christian stupid fighting
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.
children use violence
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.
falling-in-love sex motherhood
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.
perfection humanity trying
Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.
half ideas john kate nursery spend studied talked took
We took John and Kate to spend half a day at the McMillan open-air nursery school, and we talked about her and studied her ideas in action.
almost carried certainly confusion necessity repression severity
Severity and repression of the old type, however, almost certainly carried with it in adolescence, disturbance, confusion and the necessity of revolt.
competition
Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.
far information might poorer report withheld
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.