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.

- Dora Russell

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…

- Dora Russell

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

- Dora Russell

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…

- Dora Russell

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritaria…

- Dora Russell

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

- Dora Russell

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

What does one do about the dead? They live forever.

- Dora Russell

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