Occupation: Author Birth: April 3, 1894 Death: May 31, 1986
There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex..
Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman's individual entity and the necessity of economic independence. Perhaps it was….
Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects..
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..
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 t….
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..
Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about ….
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….
Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritaria….
We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance..
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 withou….
Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying..
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them..
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..
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 separ….
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 i….
Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence..
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens..
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 gradua….
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 fro….
What does one do about the dead? They live forever..